Posted by girlnterrupted78 on June 26, 2007, at 18:14:05
In reply to Re: About replies » iforgotmypassword, posted by BabyBunny on June 26, 2007, at 17:39:41
Ok, even though we're trying to get back to the subject matter of the thread, I will make one last comment on the issue of Philipa because you brought it up.
I believe I did say in my post that I appreciated the fact that Philipa was always trying to be helpful. But I said that it simply made it stressful (irritating, although I won't use that word again not to offend anyone) for me to come to a support site to find that someone finds me dumb enough not to know that google and doctors exist. I just felt ordered around and dumbed down and it annoyed me.
I do recognize that Philipa is a very nice person who is always trying to help. But it is just the amount of certain type of posts she makes--those where the lack of direct information and personal experience makes them not helpful and rather as if she had a duty to respond to every single thread regardless of her knowledge (or lack thereof) on the subject matter of the thread.
Maybe Philipa could in fact do a google search and come up with some helpful information and statistics, when she is unfamiliar with the topic, so that her comments would be in fact on the helpful side, rather than on the commanding side. I don't think anyone likes to be commanded by people who don't know anything about the questions they are asking, and that is one of the things that made me uneasy about her comment. If Philipa loves helping, how about providing some different kind of help? I know she likes to spend time online. Her help would be welcome and appreciated if she contributed with actual information instead of commands and orders on the topics she's not familiar with.
Just a thought.
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