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| Welcome to Halcove! If you're looking for chat, assistance, queries, or otherwise, this is where you can find me.
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| If you do need me, I am generally up for sharing information and having discussions in good faith. However, you may find it easier than normal to trigger a response that you may not agree with following one of your actions. This page exists to explain the factors that go into my actions.
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| == If you're looking for help... ==
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| ==== [https://dontasktoask.com/ Don't ask to ask.] ====
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| You're more likely to get me to respond if I can see your entire query at a moment's glance, without the fluff of "politeness". If we aren't friends, you're engaging in a transactional conversation. The only reason you're talking to me is to extract information for me, not to maintain a friendship. Allowing people to efficiently interpret your question allows for them to efficiently answer them.
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| If you "ask to ask", I'm going to respond at whichever time is most convenient to me, as the question you asked seems to be very low priority. I may even forget that you asked me and end up ignoring your query.
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| Instead of "Are you busy?", ask "Could you help me with researching the Tegra X1?".
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| ==== [https://xyproblem.info/ Don't parade your "solution" while asking for help.] ====
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| Say you want to change the Facebook app theme color. You read online, "sending this command to your phone via your PC can force the theme to change". So instead of asking how to change Facebook's theme, you ask me "How can I send PC commands to my phone?". Instead of addressing the issue you wanted, you're trying to get help with something that isn't actually related, when I could have told you to simply click a button in the Facebook app itself to achieve the same goal. Less time is wasted for both parties if you ask for what you actually want.
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| If you engage in this behaviour, I'm likely to ask you upfront what your actual solution is. If I engage with your question, I'm not very likely to stay engaged once I find out I was helping you with something you never actually wanted to do, since there's now an entire secret boss to the assistance you asked for.
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| Instead of "How do I use Android's developer options", ask "How do I change Facebook to its dark theme?".<br />
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| == If you're looking to chat ==
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| === nohello ===
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