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If you respect the forum and the free advice, then I'd suggest before you write something you also have some appreciation for fellow posters and mods who read what you write, and consider the effects your postings may have on their actions.
The way I learned it, one mark of the professional is that they confine their advice to the areas in which they claim proficiency, and refrain from giving advice in areas where they lack proficiency. They are also careful to separate what they think they know from opinion and conjecture.
They also have the professionalism and courtesy to not expect others to pick up after them as you seem to be expecting others here to do.
Everyone makes mistakes but spouting off without knowledge is a mistake that should be stopped before it's spoken/written, and not corrected by others after the fact.
IMO only, regular posters and mods here are not nurse maids. Self regulate and constrain yourself.
If you're not pretty sure, or don't know what you're talking (writing) about, have the courtesy to not lead others astray with potentially incorrect - and more importantly - perhaps dangerous, or costly, or time wasting information. Ask a question rather than take a chance at pronouncing fallacy, and/or at least provide some backup reasoning for what you present. Doing it that way also saves others time not spent cleaning up/correcting/calling out potentially dangerous and/or costly messes.
Take what you want of the above. Scrap the rest.
The way I learned it, one mark of the professional is that they confine their advice to the areas in which they claim proficiency, and refrain from giving advice in areas where they lack proficiency. They are also careful to separate what they think they know from opinion and conjecture.
They also have the professionalism and courtesy to not expect others to pick up after them as you seem to be expecting others here to do.
Everyone makes mistakes but spouting off without knowledge is a mistake that should be stopped before it's spoken/written, and not corrected by others after the fact.
IMO only, regular posters and mods here are not nurse maids. Self regulate and constrain yourself.
If you're not pretty sure, or don't know what you're talking (writing) about, have the courtesy to not lead others astray with potentially incorrect - and more importantly - perhaps dangerous, or costly, or time wasting information. Ask a question rather than take a chance at pronouncing fallacy, and/or at least provide some backup reasoning for what you present. Doing it that way also saves others time not spent cleaning up/correcting/calling out potentially dangerous and/or costly messes.
Take what you want of the above. Scrap the rest.
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