Timeline for Should the age of the asker temper our answers?
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| Oct 10, 2011 at 15:17 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | It appears we may agree to disagree so. Thanks. | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 15:11 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | I just checked your profile and saw you're 30 years old . . . honestly 30 just popped out of my head in the last comment, I wasn't have a go at you mate :) | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 15:10 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | Wesley: I have to say I disagree. If a 30 year old acts immaturely, then fine, I'm done with them. If a 13 year old act immaturely I'll tell them they're being immature, why they're behaviour is self defeating, and give them another chance. The difference is the first is knows better (or damn well should), the second may not know better and never will know better until someone explains it to them. | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 15:04 | comment | added | user159834 | Personally I don't see a difference, you should try to be helpful no matter what or simply say nothing. If the user reacts in an immature way, age should not make a difference. You can replace "skill" with "comprehension" in my post and it may make more sense what I'm getting at. Age is not a perfect reflection of experience either, except yes: you can probably assume they don't have work experience. In any case, patience should depend on what you are getting back from OP, and rude comments usually cause more of the same on both ends. | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 15:00 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | It's not so much about skill, and I don't plan on talking down to anyone. It's about life experience and maturity. It's reasonable to expect most (possibly +95%) SO users have a couple of years 3rd level education and/or a couple of years work experience. You can't ask a 13 year old kid to react well when a 40 year old developer says "This question doesn't make sense, go clean it up". The kid may need to be told why it doesn't make sense. Personally I'm willing to take the time and explain that to a kid, but I'm not if it's a foul tempered 35 year old that should know better. | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 14:32 | history | answered | user159834 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |