Thread:ScottyBlue/@comment-8072-20120418014640/@comment-3462718-20120418051614

You misunderstood me; I was referring to the average young person's attitude of "entertain me or I ignore it/complain about it" attitude (I work with kids and sometimes teens in real life). Many are capable of reading and understanding a long instructive paragraph, but if it's not interesting enough or not what they want at that moment they just won't think to do more than glance at it. It's a human nature thing that somethimes comes into play without people thinking about it; its the same thing as people who, during the course of a day, walk more than half a mile total around a store because they like shopping, but then leave their shopping cart in the middle of the parking lot five yards from a cart rack. It's not done with malicious intent, just that people get in the habit of thinking only about what they want to do at that time. Not saying this attitude is right, just that it's common in this hurried, selfish, pleasure/entertainment-based society and should be prepared for. They have extra people to clean up stray shopping carts at stores; on a site with a lot of fun stuff and a lot of rules, you need extra people to occasionally explain things to people as they go becuase they just can't bring themselves to read the big boring list of rules while they're messing around with the fun stuff. Also, (this comes from experience in the debate field) few people like to be hit over the head, as it were, with a list of regulations and rules about things they didn't ask to be instructed about; they like to ask ,when it's relevant, and be instructed in  the thing they were asking about only. That's what I try to do, when people ask me to - it seems more effective sometimes, anyway.

I also wasn't referring to only when someone needs help with a main "Redwall Wiki" thing - for instance, the Manual of Style doesn't spell out detail for detail how, from scratch, to upload a picture to a site (more new users than you'd think have never done it before on any site whatsoever and have no idea), or what are some idea starters for a fanfic, or how I personally go about sketching a picture and what are my tips for drawing; these are some main things I get asked. That, and where and if we can communicate when online at the same time, which is certainly not here on this site. If someone wants to discuss ideas for fanfic starters or something, even if they're brand new, I can't talk to them in a timely fashion unless I direct them to the fanon characters wiki. This is a plea for a bit of lenience here; however, if you still insist I tell them no chatting here, I can't talk (at first, anyway) I will, though I maintain that it's a bit rude and nonsensical. However, I would be curious to know what my answer should be when the new user makes the sensible reply "Where can we talk, then?"