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You really need people who are moderators or users to take a kinder tone when admonishing a new user. Oh, I forgot forums you are not supposed to be helpful and non condescending to new user. K

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The reply from @J-M-L was direct and to the point, Had you presented your problem better then it would be easier to provide help

If you had read and followed the advice in How to get the best out of this forum you would know that posting pictures of code and/or error messages is not helpful, particularly when they are rotated 90 degrees.

You did not help things by posting a slab of text with no formatting to help reading it

What this forum needs is users who read and follow advice to which they have been directed when first using it.

Remember, it is you that needs the help and all those providing it, including moderators, are unpaid and do it in their own time so it behoves you to help them help you

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Maybe take some time to learn more?

In one of your first activiies on this forum you chose to demonize everyone because you do not like a post. You dismissed the fact that the user in question did not follow rules. Typical. Who really needs?

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People observe, @kelid .

Your first topic died at post #7, when you ignored a clear request from an Arduino team member for further information.

Second topic, same, after post #2.

Third post, in progress, has triggered this complaint of yours.

Helpers here are unpaid volunteers. Many have now read your second and third threads, and if sufficiently interested, or believing they know the subject matter at hand, have had to rotate each image in order to attempt to decipher your problem. Is it beyond your ability to perceive that wasting several people’s time rotating photos you are surely capable of rotating before posting them asking for help is rude, inconsiderate, and might therefore trigger less-than-polite responses? That’s quite a thought, eh?

It’s entirely up to you, but I think you need to pull in your horns and look in the mirror. There are many thousands of first-topic-posts here that demonstrate the willingness and eagerness of helpers to quickly help those who help themselves by trying to follow the rules, but every now and then, someone digs a hole, and won’t stop digging. Please, don’t be one of the latter. You clearly have ability, but please discard the ‘attitude’.

Thanks

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I'll try my best to be a good person from now on. The point to the whole question isn't a coding one. The point if you are observant is that a bug exists not in any code I wrote but a glitch in the way App Lab responds to a valid Python construct (x += 1). And stranger still when a line of code is replaced with one that worked before causes App Lab to freeze and become non responsive. My code works fine thank you. It's a problem with App Lab that I am trying to get noticed. K

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It's a problem with App Lab that I am trying to get noticed.

For help, please follow the forum rules and in your other thread, post the details required to understand the problem, in the expected format.

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Yeah!

And... back to square one.

Apparently it was not important enough for you to follow up (other post)... and lay off the insults.

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I am an old retired engineer
I don’t see well.
I read often on my iPhone / small screen
I’m trying to help like I helped thousands others but there is no way I even see where your += 1 is in your small rotated images

I stated what I feel when seeing your post which I approached as someone willing to help out.
I started the sentence with please :folded_hands:

It’s simple facts that leads to better posting and quicker answers and solutions - not a judgement of a person

Why do you take things so personally?

It is so simple to get the advice, learn how things are done here and why and edit your post and copy/paste in code tags the information ?

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I can tell you from experience that posting questions in the right way does help. It’s then your choice to follow the best practices or not, bitch about answers you get or don’t get but trust my experience, there is a path that gets answers much faster.

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