When am I going to be able to correct those who attempt to answer my questions without understanding them?

Question

OPM obviously thought I was interested in fundamentals and just as obviously thought that by "beta charts" I meant charts of beta, rather than Yahoo!'s lame new beta format, which is grossly inferior to the classic format in terms of accuracy and completeness.

When I try to respond, I am chastized for trying to answer my own question. Is this lame or what?!?!?!

Maybe it's because Oh Boy can't read.

I never said anything about wanting a chart of beta. I don't even want the beta-test charts that Yahoo! is substituting for the classic format by default, because they are lame.

Finally, I'm sending all the spam to my rhetorical questions, which were meant as feedback to Yahoo!, whose developers are so "perfect" they don't want any.

So shut up already!

(finishing incomplete sentence): I'm sending all the spam to my yahoo.com address, where I can ignore it like the throwaway address I intended it to be.

Answer 1

You don't get to do that. You get to pick the best answer; beyond that you might as well ignore the bad ones. If you want to get into a back-and-forth with the people who provide bad answers, you probably should be posting your questions on a more standard board.

Answer 2

Maybe it's because your question is stupid.

I've never seen a chart of beta and don't really know why you'd want one. Given that beta is the semi-variance vs. that of an index it's best used as a snapshot.

You can't trade beta, even synthetically, so your question was stupid and people very reasonably assumed you were taking about the new charts.

Answer 3

Think of white.
What goes in your mind?
Some will think of white clouds, some will think of white paper and so on.
We all process information differently.
If you talk to a person and he keeps shaking his head from left to right, what does it mean? Most of us will interpret it as as 'not in agreement'. But to a race, shaking the head left to right means he is agreeing to what we say!
Maybe next time you ask your questions, add redundancy so that it helps other people to understand them better.

Answer 4

if there are many who fail to understand, is the problem perhaps with the way you phrased the question?

references to details that aren't in everyone's experience need to be explained, and location is often omitted in people's questions when it is crucial, in my experience.


of course, if you're perfect, this obviously can't be the case, can it?


:-)

Answer 5

well dont try to answer your own question. but you can add to it if you want to make comments about the answers you are getting