It looks like you linked to a special draft mode or something, it says edit post in the url:
Zooming out and being sort of blunt/a jerk about it: it’s sort of unpromising (especially when you’re seeking detailed advice on what presumably is complicated software) that you haven’t noticed this. This seems low effort. You want to demonstrate you can attend to details like this.
Yes, you should definitely write up a description of the software in your comment, because again, because a few sentences/paragraphs doesn’t take much time and lets technical people skim and see if it makes sense to engage. Your going to bounce out all the people with high opportunity costs.
I see what you’re saying now: initially I misread your comment as “It seems [good] to provide a description of your desired software...” which led me to think you were able to access the article (“it”), which confused me. I also didn’t have problems when I tried the link, but of course it’s now obvious that was because I am the editor. I just fixed that—I’m not even sure how I ended up copying the edit post link anyway.
FWIW, to address (2) and (1b), I was just trying to ask people if there is any “help me find [or build] a software solution” service (preferably but not necessarily within EA), or if I should just post a full message/question about it on the forum. I was not (yet) trying to ask people to find specific software for me. So, for efficiency’s sake, this post was indeed somewhat low effort—hence the posting via shortform. But including the wrong link and overlooking one important word in your reply are definitely mistakes on my part.
Your link still doesn’t work, you should fix it.
It looks like you linked to a special draft mode or something, it says edit post in the url:
Zooming out and being sort of blunt/a jerk about it: it’s sort of unpromising (especially when you’re seeking detailed advice on what presumably is complicated software) that you haven’t noticed this. This seems low effort. You want to demonstrate you can attend to details like this.
Yes, you should definitely write up a description of the software in your comment, because again, because a few sentences/paragraphs doesn’t take much time and lets technical people skim and see if it makes sense to engage. Your going to bounce out all the people with high opportunity costs.
I see what you’re saying now: initially I misread your comment as “It seems [
good] to provide a description of your desired software...” which led me to think you were able to access the article (“it”), which confused me. I also didn’t have problems when I tried the link, but of course it’s now obvious that was because I am the editor. I just fixed that—I’m not even sure how I ended up copying the edit post link anyway.FWIW, to address (2) and (1b), I was just trying to ask people if there is any “help me find [or build] a software solution” service (preferably but not necessarily within EA), or if I should just post a full message/question about it on the forum. I was not (yet) trying to ask people to find specific software for me. So, for efficiency’s sake, this post was indeed somewhat low effort—hence the posting via shortform. But including the wrong link and overlooking one important word in your reply are definitely mistakes on my part.