So I'm taking this thread as some kind of an online-container für several quick-guides for "nurbees"
(short for newbees that are in a hurry )
to store pictures and for testing purposes until it all works as intended.
I call this quick-guides.
I will write some Autohotkey-scripts and also publish these Autohotkey-scripts for very quick writing down posts with clickable links to these quick-guides that have two aims:
showing how posting posts can be accelerated (Ctrl-T, right-cklick Copy for forum)
showing the most important rules in one to three pictures ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the original start of this post
4 keystrokes and 3 mouse-clicks to make an impressive first post
Hello newbee
you are welcomed: 4 key-strokes and 3 mouse-clicks to make in impressive first post:
If you take 10 minutes time to do point 5 this saves you minimum 60 minutes of time to get your project finished.
It is very likely that it saves you days to finish your project.
The problem with this explanations you linked above is: they are too long for users that are in a hurry trying to speed up getting answers by doing a quick posting. Result: They don't read it at all - mission failed.
So my way is a pragmatic approach that tries to take up their goal of doing a quick post to get a quick answer.
best regards Stefan
StefanL38:
The problem with this explanations you linked above is: they are too long for users that are in a hurry trying to speed up getting answers by doing a quick posting. Result: They don't read it at all - mission failed.
So my way is a pragmatic approach that tries to take up their goal of doing a quick post to get a quick answer.
best regards Stefan
Yes you are correct in that those who are in too much of a rush dont read them.
It is also true that they are the ones that usually end up on a short break until they do which negates them getting the help they wanted as fast as they wanted.
And if they dont have the patience to read they should maybe find another hobby.
that I wrote "mission failed" is generalisation that is too big to be true - generally generalised it is wrong. Of course a lot of users will read these sticky postings and follow the recommendations.
I would like to direct these users that are in a hurry to a careful style that makes them more successful.
I will do that by posting a short post that contains a link. So I hope reading a four line post is not annoying if it will appear quite frequently
best regards Stefan
Your objective is a good one but I don't think what you have done, so far, will achieve it. Also, your keystrokes are only relevant for copy/pasting code from the Arduino IDE. In spite of your Title your "instructions" give no advice about how to write a question to go along with the code. Just posting code is not sufficient.
Alternatively change the Title to (for example) "Simple steps to copy your Arduino code into a Forum Post"
Separately, when eventually you have settled on the final content of your instructions you should put them in a new Thread and refer the newbies to that so that they are not confused by all the discussion here.
