Why do you give bad advice?


Now I'm not talking about different opinions or an honest mistake, but a response that is clearly bad advice. Here's just one example.

Poster states that due to living in a small town and no larger town in a reasonable driving distance, he has no way to audition, so he's looking for helpful advice in considering an upgrade.

Then I see responses like, listen to as many as you can before deciding, take whatever to your local dealer to see how well they match, or find a good brick and mortar dealer to audition.

I see this happening more, so maybe it's just a sign of the times that many don't take the time to read the entire post and only respond to the title.

OK, that's my little rant for the day.
tls49

Showing 1 response by onhwy61

As a group the people who participate on this forum are most generous, well intentioned and highly knowledgeable.  If a person presents a well thought out question or solicitation for information, they can get very useful responses.  On the other hand, if someone asks "What's the best" or "is X an upgrade over Y", then all they will get back are opinions of varying quality.  To get the best from this forum someone has to know enough to ask the "right" questions.

My pet peeves are OPs who omit vital information from their posts and OPs who never participate in their own threads.  After you ask a question and get numerous responses it would be nice to find out what you did with the information.