I don’t see why it matters that they didn’t include every detail. They are asking what alternatives there are; they weren’t asking for alternatives based on their specific needs; just alternatives, and that’s what people gave them. And they accepted Chimera OS as a (to them) seemingly good option and what they are choosing to install. Not every post needs to be extravagantly laid out in perfect detail. If it’s a complex support post, sure. But a simple question can have more details added when necessary in the comments.
I’m not trying to argue that they didn’t need to add that detail at all, or that it wasn’t important to add. My point is, (and I didn’t do a good job of articulating it before), that there’s no point in downvoting it; It’s not a huge deal. In my opinion, people mass downvoting a comment without saying why, is like a group of individuals in a physical location, audibly grumbling because they don’t like what someone has to say, without actually explaining why they’re grumbling, and then expecting the person they’re collectively grumbling at to somehow figure it out on their own. It’s ridiculous. If you don’t agree with how OP went about something, say something instead of just saying “grr” and doing nothing.
We’re in a building full of people who’re trying to help out one guy who asked a question. There’s a bunch of bystanders standing around getting all grumbly because he didn’t ask the question with enough detail. They haven’t shared this reasoning with one another; that’s just silently going through their mind, and they can only assume what each other are thinking. I’m standing there with them finding it kind of stupid but kinda funny too, that they’re grumbling. “If you have a problem with it then why don’t you say something instead of sitting in the corner whining?”
I don’t see why it matters that they didn’t include every detail. They are asking what alternatives there are; they weren’t asking for alternatives based on their specific needs; just alternatives, and that’s what people gave them. And they accepted Chimera OS as a (to them) seemingly good option and what they are choosing to install. Not every post needs to be extravagantly laid out in perfect detail. If it’s a complex support post, sure. But a simple question can have more details added when necessary in the comments.
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Not so extravagant, huh? You wrote more to excuse a lazy post then OP did making it.
I’m not trying to argue that they didn’t need to add that detail at all, or that it wasn’t important to add. My point is, (and I didn’t do a good job of articulating it before), that there’s no point in downvoting it; It’s not a huge deal. In my opinion, people mass downvoting a comment without saying why, is like a group of individuals in a physical location, audibly grumbling because they don’t like what someone has to say, without actually explaining why they’re grumbling, and then expecting the person they’re collectively grumbling at to somehow figure it out on their own. It’s ridiculous. If you don’t agree with how OP went about something, say something instead of just saying “grr” and doing nothing.
We’re in a building full of people who’re trying to help out one guy who asked a question. There’s a bunch of bystanders standing around getting all grumbly because he didn’t ask the question with enough detail. They haven’t shared this reasoning with one another; that’s just silently going through their mind, and they can only assume what each other are thinking. I’m standing there with them finding it kind of stupid but kinda funny too, that they’re grumbling. “If you have a problem with it then why don’t you say something instead of sitting in the corner whining?”