• Spotlight7573@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s not that they need to know that to provide a potential answer, it’s that they want to know that before they decide to help you bypass a filter.

    • PlogLod@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      A user here repeatedly tried to argue that they physically could not provide an answer without knowing the content. I think they realised their logic didn’t make sense after I explained it clearly, because they stopped replying.

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        11 months ago

        I’m still here. I just realized that you’re never going to tell us what you said. Have a good day (or night). Perhaps for the future consider if being hostile and evasive is the best disposition when asking for help. I know this will likely trigger an argumentative reply, but consider that the harder tone you take, the more of an issue your behavior becomes and the opening issue becomes less the topic of discussion. Winning the skirmish to lose the war, as it were.

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          11 months ago

          Look I appreciate if you were trying to help. But what you were saying honestly didn’t make sense.

          I really don’t think I was being hostile. I tried to explain my position clearly, that for multiple reasons I’m unable to state exact comments that have been removed, though I gave you general examples. You seemed to ignore this multiple times and at that point I didn’t know how else to explain it.

          And you tried to argue that you weren’t able to provide a character format without knowing the exact content, inaccurately comparing it to someone not telling you what problem they were having with their car, even though I have explained the problem and there’s nothing preventing anyone from helping with it in this case.

          All it requires is the knowledge and willingness to suggest a text character that doesn’t get removed.

          This is really hard to understand for me, if someone else asked for help with this, I would just help if I could. I wouldn’t try to determine what the person is commenting.

          So are you still saying you can’t physically help with what I’m asking? Or do you just not want to help unless I tell you the content, because you can’t trust that what I’m commenting is completely innocuous and getting deleted for no reason? Do we not trust each other at our word anymore in this society?

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            11 months ago

            Do we not trust each other at our word anymore in this society?

            On the Internet, the answer to this question has always been the same. It hasn’t changed since I got in on an old 14.4k baud modem.

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      11 months ago

      This place reeks of a lack of empathy, seriously. I explained my situation and it does make sense. But people (not you specifically) are being really rude.