Sometimes I try being helpful. Most of the time I succeed. The problem is when people don’t bother to do any work for themselves.
Another problem is when helping people with code they start using things and copying code from other sources without knowing what it does. If I don’t know what it does I’ll start working on it line by line, I’ll search for what functions or commands that I’m not sure of do and if I can’t figure it out from that I’ll look for code examples that may help.
I just don’t get all these people who want everything handed to them on a silver platter. It gets frustrating and it makes me want to stop helping people.
I’ve already got a short list in my head of people that I won’t help anymore. Mostly because when they ask for help and I ask them for more information they get mad and tell me the same thing that they already said. I don’t generally ask for more information to torment people, although sometimes it helps to ask someone what some variable is when it’s obviously wrong (ie what’s $functoin when it should be $function), so getting bitchy when I ask for clarification or more information isn’t really helping you.
I also love the people who ask for help and when you give them something never get back to you wether it worked or not or if they even got your suggestion.
Meh, I think I’ll just go back to helping those who help themselves.