You can claim to be "new here," all you want, but that doesn't mean that when someone gives you some advice, especially someone with wings here, that you poop on his rep just because you don't like the answer. In fact, that may be the point where you throttle back a bit.
True fact! I have given out 7 neg reps in 4 years on AW. OP has passed out 2 negs and received 13 in little more than 24 hrs. The reason he was hassled, his opening post would have us believe.... my friend's brother's cousin or some such yadda, has this medjcal problem....
Followed after several posts to what I, and several others sensed was a... gasp, Troll! Then "The_Pants" whined for a bit calling winged NAs "unprofessional" and "disrespectful". If the majority here are willing to give a pass in a situation like this, maybe I'm too old fashioned for AW.
Sometimes we lose prospective on things and treat new people like shit in a way that's a little too VP and SWO, IMO.
Very seldom, in my experience, newbies have been treated well when they arrive having done a bit of research, exhibit a modicum of humility, and don't throw a tantrum whenever questions are not answered to their liking. In my observations, it's a fairly recent phenomenon. Why, I don't know for sure (read recent college grads)... could it possibly be, er.. the
E word - entitlement? If zippy wants to give these types a pass, so be it. By the time the Noobs take over the asylum, I'll be history.
Regarding the winged members leaving, I guess many of the old hands here are still in the dark (at least I am), but in my opinion they're unrelated. I also have not seen a lot of new (pre-selection, pre-OCS types), actually leaving, and I spend quite a lot of my AW time on those threads trying to help and encourage, NOT drive them off. If everyone here gives a pass on disrespect/or borderline arrogance... they'll really get slammed in OCS, and beyond. That's all I have to offer this thread, it's merely my opinion.
BzB
Thanks for laying it all out there for me.......so to speak.
