Help-less

You can suggest they build their own- but often the “helpless help forum user” is... helpless. I used to try to explain things to people I met who’d ask me really crazy “I want to build the best most expensive thing ever but obviously have no idea anything about the subject...” it usually did more harm than good. I just started telling them “you can’t do that.” They’d say “but so and so did...” and I say “yeah. They can. The fact you are asking these questions means YOU can’t. Not yet.” Those people need to either give up and not waste their (and others) time or money- or go learn more. If it is y worth your time to you to learn about the thing you want- why is it worth mine to literally do it for you? You don’t want to pay someone to do it because it’s too much, you don’t want to learn it yourself because it’s too much work, but you want me to do what someone else charges money for... for free... because you are lazy?

To be clear- I’m talking about people who ask questions that are so VERY obviously oblivious that they are unlikely to even understand the answers. I’ve seen it happen enough. Even simple stuff. A lot of times the experience needed to complete what sounds like simple steps, or deal with problems that can come up, or make judgment calls that will come up- if you’re asking the question you don’t have it. Even pros tend not to work as superuser if they can help it, and almost anyone who can put a Merlin engine into a Honda isn’t going to ask “how do I put this crazy engine in my car...” because they know the answer is complex and depends on a shit ton of variables.