Medication working tonight and I’m having dumb…er thoughts.
Have you ever been surfing the forum and want to reply just the the threads title?
If i did I’d be thrown outta here. Some folks make the most confusing titles or just the perfect set up.
Anyway, carry on, nothing to see here, unless I’m not odd.
Let me guess… like when someone says, “My printer is bricked”? 
Only to realize they have no idea what that actually means.
I often start typing a response to the topic title, only to catch myself when I realize later that the person was just posting “Click Bait.” Back when I ran forums, this was discouraged, and violators became pariahs. Sadly, the days of proper forum etiquette are behind us, thanks to Reddit and Discord. I miss the good old days when forums had order and were inviting. Now, it’s like when AOL users flooded the Internet and turned it into an anti-intellectual swamp. But hey, at least they’re keeping it real—or as Chris Rock would say, real dumb. 
Erm, yes.
I HATE a lack of context or so many titles being as useless as can be for help as the goal whilst duplicating that of so many before them.
Made up examples (really, not really)
What do we do with those?
Especially when so many are essentially “Have you ever seen this?”.
Before health issues meant I had to sell my business, I spent many years teaching my staff HOW to ask a question.
Essentially, I posited…
“What are you hoping to get? Write a question that gets that.”
I’m weaning myself off of reddit and one of the reasons is exactly that. Mostly I follow hobby-related subs. 3d printing subs and even r/guitar are full of confusing posts like “Is this ok?!” and a picture, with no other information. Or similar questions that would be answered in two seconds with a Google search. It’s just the way people are, but I’m ok with withdrawing further into isolation as I age.
Yeah I pretty much left most forum’s and social a few years back it seems you either need to be a cryptologist or a mind reader to understand what some people are on about.
Ah yes the good old days of text based forums full of the finest nerds ( no offence, I’m one of them😂) discussing the finer details of their chosen subjects. Back then pretty much every post had value and a concise title unless it was in off topic. Now you just get the title: What’s wrong?, then a post with just a couple of blurry pictures with no words. I nearly replied that the problem was his camera focus and maybe he should clean the sensor and lenses.
It makes my brain hurt sometimes trying to decipher what’s going on and half the time I just give up and move on, I’m probably just getting old or maybe someone should read the instructions that come with the 
they buy or learn what a search bar is.
Anyway I’ll stop before I make myself grumpy😅
I’m just going to leave this here😂
Just tried to help and almost cried. Won’t name or shame but if you ever search for extruders having problems you’ll see.
Yeah I read that, I feel for you that was painful. That was the inspiration for my last post too🤣
Some of you may know (I don’t hide it and I have mentioned it a few times), I have a condition called Aphantasia (amongst many other disabilities).
In short, I cannot form a mental picture of anything, not shapes, people, family, friends, nothing.
This makes it particularly hard for me to understand those who appear to go out of their way to provide no context to the problem they are trying to resolve.
Context is king for me.
It is like they have no interest in doing the minimum required to gain assistance.
This is why, if you are (un)lucky to have ever received a direct message/mail from me, it is long, and I have to provide as much context as possible.
Sorry to hear that affects you. I don’t think I can imagine not being able to imagine how somethings working, I guess that’s what I mean.
Seems you do a great job regardless.
51 years to learn to compensate.
I cannot create a mental picture of anyone in my mind, not even a loved one standing right in front of me before I close my eyes to try.
If I haven’t seen someone for a while, I may not recognise them and the cycle begins.
I believe I suffer from it as well to an extent, although ‘suffer’ in my case is a strong word. I was already 50 when I realized other people can visualize things in their mind. Baffling.
When I think of someone I get ‘a feeling’ of that person, I definitely do not mentally see anything. Same for the infamous apple test. I do not ‘see’ an apple. More like I perceived the notion of an apple… Hard to explain.
Ed Catmull has it as well. He did alright.
I recall a fascinating BBC documentary on brain functions, covering cases of unusual brain adaptations. It featured people with hyperthymesia (perfect recall of every day) and a person with aphantasia who, after a stroke, couldn’t visually recognize his wife but knew her by voice. Another subject was a non-verbal autistic man who began speaking at 27. He provided valuable insights, describing experiences like hearing gravel sounds as colors, similar to what some report on LSD.
However, if I understand your description correctly, you’ve always experienced this from birth, so how is it different from, say, someone born with colorblindness? I imagine that if you had lived in another time or place, you might have gone through life unaware that your brain worked differently from others.
Colourblind people can still recognise their own family and friends.
Compensating for something isn’t the same as it being a pleasant or sometimes scary experience.
I have lost the function of my left eye and ear and 25% of the right eye and ear since my brain tumour (ignoring everything thing else it took), which makes it even harder to identify people.
On a more practical level, ‘imagine’ if you will, designing something as simple as a red sphere you have on a picture, turning your head away from that picture and forgetting it is red and the size of sphere.
Now imagine that for every step of 3D design.
I wrote software commercially for 35 years before be medical conditions took it away from me and I had to sell my business.
Writing code was rarely affected by my condition as my mind used different structures to recall patterns in code.
The problem with writing a subject title that is clear and concise is that no one opens it because they already know it is not for them.
I don’t expect anyone other than the true audience to open it, but, it still stings a little that the stats show little interest. I am interesting - people!
Yeah, but we know you know, ya know?
I wouldn’t be so hard on yourself, I put a post up a couple of weeks ago about splitting the control of the part fan for overhangs and bridges as I find they need different speeds. Didn’t even get any interaction😂, I just guess maybe I’m the only one with this problem.
You can’t start a topic off topic…
