RW2 problem

Hi qBall,

The issue not the nature of your request but the tone in which you have responded to various people within this thread. 

The written word, if not expressed correctly, can be totally misconstrued, and the tone of any response may appear totally different to different people. Perhaps take a minute to reflect on how your responses may have come across to others and ask yourself if perhaps your tone was not quite appropriate. 

As others have said, we are a friendly forum here, helping others in our spare time and people will speak up if a response is not appropriate.

I don't believe referencing cross-posts is common practice at all. Most, if not all other web sites, frown upon it for at least the following reasons:

1) Visitors/members spend more time or even move to the other web site.
2) Members get upset after finding out they have wasted time trying to help a member who had allready got a solution via a cross-post on another site and not posted on his/her other threads on other web sites saying they had a solution and what it was.

Once a member gets a reputation for cross-posting and other members become aware of it, most members are then reluctant to help the cross-posting member. Obviously you cannot stop cross-processing, but cross-posting memnbers should show some courtesy and post in threads where the solution was not posted that they have received a solution and even post what it was. The OP has not done that in this thread.

Also, I don't understand why you didn't post in your post containing the link to the op's other thread that he had allready rceived a solution at that stage. In the op's other thread a solution was posted on 13 Jun 2015 which is well before your first post in this thread. Your post implied the op had not received a solution yet when in fact he/she allready had, days before. So what was your point in instructing members to go have a look at the op's cross-post??

Finally, if you are going to comment on your interpretation of the tone of my posts I think I have the right to comment on the tone of your posts, especially the one where you give an instruction, at least to me since you quoted me in your post. You instruct readers to go and have a look at the op's other thread. Surely everyone, including me, can choose for themselves whether they want to spend time potentially reading through long-winded threads on other web sites. I don't believe you should be instructing anyone to do anything, especially to volunteers, who like you, try to help others in their free time.

What you could do to improve your tone, at least in my interpretation, is to suggest or request (not instruct) other volunteers to do something only if they have the time and desire to do so. I don't have the time or desire to go looking at cross-posts, so instructions to do so are meaningless to me.

I notice that the op has not posted that he/she got a solution on another web site, so I, for one, will no longer try to help the op in any future posts from the op.