>From personal experience, I have found that this support list is a far better place to ask questions than creating issues on the <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a> site. You are far more likely to get a very helpful response here. I experienced the same thing of no responses at all to issues I created on the <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a> site, while I received rapid, friendly, and helpful answers here.<br>
<br>Best of luck.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Steven Scotten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steves@splicer.com">steves@splicer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've read several FAQ-type documents that detail the best way to ask for help on usenet, mailing lists, and the like. Yet I still seem to do a poor job of describing issues I encounter. So I'm going to link a request for help I made and ask for specifically what I've missed, so that in the future perhaps I can make my questions more friendly to those that might be able to answer them.<br>
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<a href="http://drupal.org/node/387900" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/387900</a><br>
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My guess is that there are four possible reasons that I haven't received a response. They are (in decreasing order of likelihood):<br>
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1) I have provided incomplete information.<br>
2) The question's answer is so obvious that no one bothers to answer it<br>
3) The question is difficult enough that no one can answer it<br>
4) No one ever looks at the Location Views issue queue<br>
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There's really nothing I can do about possibilities #3 and #4. If #2 is correct then perhaps a new career path is in order. So I'm hoping that I am woefully inept at asking for help.<br>
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I have included a clear example of the problem, a link to a description of a similar problem (and the patch I applied), descriptions of the ways I've tried to work around the problem, and why those methods failed.<br>
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Please tell me: what can I do differently to get a better chance of a response?<br>
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Thank you,<br>
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Steve<br><font color="#888888">
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