August 05, 2005

Some people aren't worth the time it takes to try to help them: discuss

Why do I waste my time trying to help people who are apparently unable to appreciate my (more or less) worthwhile advice?

A recent example comes from radio host Phil Hendrie. You'd think that if a famous blogger such as myself starts offering not just advice but a link, Hendrie would be a slight bit grateful. I mean, he's a moderately well-known radio personality, but he's new at the blog game. So, I left a comment at this entry pointing to this helpful post. The comment has been deleted. Note, of course, that it might have been an underling that did that.

Then, there's my long-running attempt to improve the effectiveness of DTN. They still haven't fixed those easily-fixed problems even after yet another message, this time sent using FPM's form. Once again, their frontline less-than-bright persons might be the ones who get those messages.

And, over two weeks ago I tried to offer some advice to the new site smartbusinesspractices.com. For instance, their left menu barely works in Firefox. I got a form letter in reply, and the problems still haven't been fixed. The previous disclaimers might apply here as well.

In all these cases, the problems I discussed are fairly easy to fix and would improve those sites' effectiveness. And, the value of my advice could be easily verified with a search on those issues.

The problem with all these appears to be quite simple: operator error. I'm going to stop trying to offer advice to people who are apparently unable to understand it.

Posted to Bloggage at August 5, 2005 11:15 AM

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