Forum Suggestions & User Assistance - Forum Etiquette

Hypothetical question:

Two posters to the forums. One works at a bike shop (We'll call her Amy). One is a customer at that SAME bike shop (We'll call him Bob).

Bob brings his bike to Amy's shop for some work. Amy works on Bob's bike, gives him a solution with some conditionals and sends him on his way. Bob posts to the forums that he went to a bike shop for some work and presents the diagnosis that Amy gave him to the readers on the forums and receives some answers.

What Bob doesn't realize is that Amy is a poster to the forum. Amy reads Bob's thread.

What should Amy do now?

Whatever she wants. She can let Bob know she is on the forum, or not. If Bob posts something wrong or nasty, she can publically correct him, PM him, or complain to a mod.

What should Amy do now?

Read the topic with interest.

Understand that Bob is exercising his right to seek further opinion.

Be mindful of the merit of advice given to Bob in the thread, acknowledging points perhaps not considered during the initial assessment or identifying flawed arguments used to lead him in directions he shouldn't be headed.

Say hello to him as a fellow forummer when he returns to the bike shop.

:D

I actually wouldn't tell Bob I was a forum user because that make things awkward for him and you might lose a customer because he is embarrassed(or not, it depends.) Also, don't take what Bob said to personal.

Isn't it obvious? Amy is a woman and she messed up Bob's bike.

lol


#3 is pretty mature.

It's a bike not counseling.

I'd probablly say hello because it would be awkward later otherwise. Lurkers are kind of creepy.

#3 is pretty mature.

If that was a reference to my post it's because I'm old!

:)

Just to clear up any confusion: I picked Amy and Bob as names because they follow the cryptographic convention for the first two letters of the alphabet.

So you aren't really a woman?

Isn't it obvious? Amy is a woman and she messed up Bob's bike.

You do believe in conventional answers, don't you?

East Hill

Isn't it obvious? Amy is a woman and she messed up Bob's bike.

Here we go again, Yamcha being a complete jerk. One minute he's being a racist, the next a sexist. Who reared you Yamcha? This forum group is populated by some nice people, male and female. Why do you feel you have to make inane jokes and insults? Every thread I read where you post, involves lowering the tone of the conversation at some stage or ridiculing other people. Why do you feel you have to act the ass all the time?

Please have a look at yamcha's user profile and at this post (http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.php?p=6503550&postcount=31).