No Responses

I answer a lot of questions in the Blogger Help Group and sometimes I get good thank-you's. Always good to hear that "Thank you, masked man!" On the other hand, sometimes there is no reply and I wonder what happened. Do some of the people begging for help fail to find their way back to the right thread (the line of answers provoked by their original question)? Do some of them get back and don't understand the jargon and then just fade away from us? It could happen and there's no way to prevent it.

A newbie has to be an eager beaver to some extent, someone willing to dig in his/her heels and keep asking "But what about this?" And they do have to leave a bread trail of some sort to find their thread amid dozens, if not hundreds, of threads! I suppose some of them actually take their football and go home (go to Wordpress or some other blogging enabler). People are always threatening to go. Once upon a time, even I did! Now I'm too vested; I have all these answers for and even more familiarity with Blogger. Once upon a time, it was hard for me. Now, it may not quite be easy, but it's Doable!

Still, the newbies keep coming, wave after wave, knowing little and quickly wanting to achieve great things! (The most tremendous things!) They want to know how one and one equals two. Worse yet, some of them want to know how one and one equals three! Shit, I don't know! It tests one's communication skills to explain some of this stuff. Where does one start? At the beginning? But where's the beginning?! How much detail do they need? Do they need screen shots? Are they as logical as me? (Or as logical as I profess to be!) Are my explanations too long or too short? How will I ever know when so many of them make no responses?

Well, I just hang my head and go on. I ASSUME that the thank-you's I get are typical and that I am a great help to all mankind. Probably I'm full of beans. But that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!

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