Why doesnt anyone share tech info??
 

You know, we all try to help one another out w/ technical forums. We take time from our busy schedules to read the posts and try to answer questions to the best of our ability all in order to help the next guy who might not be familiar with a specific problem. And you know hardly ever does anyone post the fix after its done. I dont think thats too much to ask.

I used to be an auto tech and belonged to an organization called ""IATN" You could ask other techs for help on a particular problem and they would respond from all over the world. A great concept and resource> BUT if you didnt also contribute and share info including, and especially the fix for the problem, your rating dropped. If it went low enough you were locked out and couldnt post anymore which made perfect sense to me.

So come on guys lets start posting the fixes also so we can all benefit from our efforts. What do you think??

You must be kidding !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :grinser010:

Pay for a membership and any performance boat question you have will be answered....

Why doesnt anyone share tech info??

Because nobody likes you.:evilb:

But really, you can't be serious. I have found the performance boating world to be more open with shaing their technical know-how and secret sauces than any of the dry-land motorsports.

Hang around a while, ask follow-up questions when you see an open issue hanging, and open your own threads with specific questions...and be sure to include relevant datapoints if you want suggestions for diagnosis.

hey nocigarette - im not asking the questions, Im answering them A$$hole

Just wanted an answer to something that I tried to help with
But F**K it.

I wasnt looking for help with diagnosis.

Talk less and learn more something you should do more of!!!!!!!!! **** for brains !!!!!!!!!!

jeff i forgot more than youll ever know

I have a paid membership, but since I go to college full time and work weekends, moneys really tight.. so the question I have..
where can I get a decent boat for about $500??

Lots of places have "decent boats" for $500.00...... as long as you already have the paddles!!!! :)

you guys missed the point of the post. I wasnt saying we should go that route, I was merely stating how it worked and what the advantages were. I havent asked for any help yet. I have only Tried to help others. Maybe YOU should learn more and talk less douchebag :
anyway if you guys think its not worth the time to post what you found then so be it :Whatever:

I am assuming you mean my overheating issue post I had, I am always willing to help out others and do the best I can, I may not post up what i found with my issues, I am a part of other boards also and cannot always keep up, also have a boat to work on, house to deal with and lots of other things, I don't always remember what posts I have to reply to...

I did throw out a reply on that post.
This is a good place to learn and search for issues, it has helped me alot, but if you are new around here I would not start throwing weight around, saying you know more then someone else forgot is not a great idea when you have no idea what they know, there are alot of people here with great knowledge and others not so great, nobody is the smartest, all of us have had different experiences and most learn more every day!! :drink:

Full Force - post was not directed at you. I read your recent post and thank you for that. And Youre right I shouldnt have said that because I dont know what someone else knows BUT
they missed the whole POINT of the post. FYI I had my first membership on OSO about 5yrs ago. I dont know - maybe that is considered New around here

I did not look at date, just saw post count, sorry.

Great way to win friends and influence people.... I am sure you will get lot's of answers that way. O' I forgot you have the answers.

:food-smiley-007:

Obviously with only 24 posts to your credit, you have no clue as to how things work around here. Oh and what a great job of establishing credibility with the comments you have made. We don't need members like you.

Smitty

Hell, I thought there were a lot of issues handled very well here...but someone has had to had the issue or know what it is...or have a good guess....but most all are helpfull..and as we all know these things will make liars out of us in a hurry when it come sto problems and fixing them....Rob

I have always been of the opinion that if you ask for something and it's given to you, you have an obligation to acknowledge it and return the courtesy. If you get 5 or 6 people to take the time to share knowledge & experience with you, the least you can do is come back and say "thanks and this is what worked..."

The other thing that I find irritating is the guy that posts a simple tech question on 6 different boards. If someone here can't answer your question, you're probably screwed. There are smart people on the other boards too- pick one.

Lookin: Your initial thought for this thread was very valid- your approach missed the mark. Especially the thread title. Calling people names doesn't add much validity to your positions.

As I have no post count on here....but I was thinking the same thing I usually just read everything I can find for the knowlege on here. But I can see the point of this post since sometimes you can do a search on here find what you are looking for then read 3 or so pages of posts only to come to the end and never find the answer to the question. Seems like a let down at the end since there is a huge amount of knowlege on this board. Thats my wooden nickle since I can't afford the 2 cents...

Wow with the nasty attitude!! I am going through some of my old tech questions and I will post the results.......sorry for the delay!!
Mike

On a Positive note. I really appreciate the help here and I Especially appreciate when someone posts the results they recieved from implementing those suggestions.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

Rarely do people post the results or what worked, they usually post what didn't work. Most of the posts just dissapear and you don't hear feedback.

It would be great to find out once in a while what fixed the problem so you can get feedback or maybe even learn something new! Or say, "damn, I forgot about that." ;)

Or I am going to avoid that mistake!:drink:

Since I assume I'm always right, I just figured what I told them worked.









:) :) :)

Although the lookinforboats approach to giving advice to our forum carries about as much tact as farting at the dinner table, he does make a good point. There are many members on this forum that make up some of sharpest people in the marine industry. When these guys, or any other member takes time out to help problem solve, I think we (I) owe it to them to provide feedback when the problem is actually resolved, instead of just letting the thread die.

I am guilty of this. I started a few "water in my oil" threads that generated 100+ replies offering intelligent advice. The problem was eventually solved thanks in part to OSO members but I never posted what the root cause was. I will be digging one of them up and posting the root cause. Thanks again guys!

Lookinforboats - You made a good point and I am sure you mean well, but.........you need to relax a bit.

I have always recieved tons of help from members and their posts. I have also learned a lot just by reading others posts with similar problems. I have noticed that the posts sometimes leave you hanging as to what fixed the problem. But I always took that another way, such as their boat got fixed and they were so excited they put it in the water and went BOATING, and then forgot to follow up.

looinforboats, you too the wrong approach the moment you started smackin some of the people on this board. :eek:

It's not the way I would have handled it.

You took offense to a comment the wrong way......I was not bashing you just bashing the man.....There is more info here than you could possibly fathom, just research first and ask the question later....Believe me i was once like you danielson.....

(karate kid) just if ya guys didnt get it..

I think its a great idea, dont know why some of these azzholes had to jump on you like that!:mad:

This is not a newby website...I have made posts from time to time that go unanswered....so what...if I want to be heard I'll talk to my wife and she can pretend to be listening.
You need to find a common interest with another poster, and then they will remember you....and before too long others will notice your conversations and maybe...MAYBE chime in. I've noticed there are a lot of old timers here...and they all have friends that they talk to regularly. If you were walking down a boat dock and 2 guys standing next to a 46 skater were talking...would you expect them to invite you into the conversation?
Try starting a thread about looking for a 35ft boat for under 100,000. You'll never be able to keep up with the posts....but the secrect is COMMON INTEREST....you would be wanting a boat...and there are people on here selling.
If you use the search function on the site, you'll find more info on here than you could ever digest.
I own a checkmate...and from what I've read...Mr Gadgets is good at making them go fast, and I wrote to him in a thread or 2 and had good conversation with him about mods I could do. Again...common interest...we had something to talk about...this site can be harsh...but it aint a kiddy pool, if you get used to it...there's not a better site for boating IMHO:drink:

I have to respectfully disagree. I've spent thousands of hours answering questions for people on here- and most of them are new guys. The old salts don't ask that many questions. At the same time, I've learned volumes from this site as well.

The common mistake many new guys make is that the friendly banter translates to them. Guys that stumble in here and think they're "one of the guys" are often crushed like bugs. Others that come in with a strong awareness that nobody knows them yet and that come across with an attitude of "I'm new and I want to learn" are always treated well. There's one in particular that got into performance boating less than a year ago and we're now good friends.

That must be me cause if you weren't my friend, I don't think I could bear'it:party-smiley-004:

I always try to share my knowledge and help people here on the OSO. I also read, listen and learn a lot here.
I don't help with problems so I can earn points, I just sincerly want to have performance boaters have fun and the minimum of problems. If I hear back that my information helped and a problem was solved it makes me feel good, but if I don't I just hope the assistance was of use and someone benefited from my input. This is really what this forum is supposed to be about.

Best Regards,
Ray @ Raylar

Sunkin...I didn't mean newbies aren't treated well...Just that you can't jump right into the pool and be one of the guys like you said. No disagreement here...maybe I could've said it different...i meant as a newby don't expect to get a thousand responses from everyone here...but if you find someone with a common interest and you have the right attitude, you may strike up a friendship right away like you said you did.

Raylar - Like I said, I wasnt recommending we take on the approach of "IATN" by "earning" points. It was just an example of how another PAID forum worked. The end result was that you learned what actually fixed the problem and I thought that was a good thing. Whoever I slammed - I apologize. Maybe I should get back to anger management classes.

nocigarette - Sorry for the bash. I misunderstood

I call BS Chris, you couldn't possibly have become friends with TribbleDiggits :)

As to the original post, I agree whole heartedly with l f b. It would be nice to hear what actually fixed someones problem. Lots of posts with suggestions, very few with posted fixes.


PS, he's right about IATN. I have been a member there since 1995 and its probably the most comprehensive "fix" database in the world.

I still don't know if alamo28's boat ever ran

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...=175568&page=6

lookinforboats, I think the title of the thread just rubbed me wrong until I got the jest of what you're trying to say. I give a lot of advice and I'm not always right, but I'm just tryin to help out some fellow boaters.

I'm sure you have !!!!!!!!!! :grinser010: