If You're Offering Advice, Practice What You Preach!
Published on March 26, 2014
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This is not directed at or inspired by any one member in particular, but I have been running into a problem with some of the more "helpful" members here on WA and I felt the need to whine a little.
The community here is great, with a strong emphasis on helping others, offering support and advice and giving everyone a voice. I love that (I'm using it right now)! But I also hate it sometimes. Why? Because some of the people who are so eager to give me advice (I'm a fairly new member, and have only been here since March 4th), aren't following the courses, haven't completed the tasks, and aren't making any money!
Now, I understand that we all are working at different paces, are coming from different levels of education, etc., but how can you give me advice on what I'm doing in Course 3 if you haven't even completed the tasks in Course 1 yet?
How can you properly advise me on my website if you don't have one, yourself? Your outside experience is all well and good (at least, most of the time), but if you haven't progressed far enough in the WA program to prove it, I can't really take your advice that seriously.
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This is not to criticize anyone who hasn't completed the website set-up process yet. But if you've been here for 6 months and care to volunteer your sagely wisdom, I should be able to visit your profile and see at least one website you've been working on, right? And not a siterubix site. If you haven't committed to your own domain yet, you should probably go back and review Course 1.
I don't know, maybe it's just late and I'm feeling grumpy, but I want to receive REAL advice from REAL experienced members, not someone who feels the need to spread their opinions without putting any course material into action. There are too many serious people here for it to be diluted by fake "experts" who won't get off the soapbox.
No disrespect, just trying to calls 'em like I sees 'em.
Am I a horrible person? Have you noticed this too? Are you also a horrible person? Should we form a club for ungrateful, horrible people? I'll follow your lead here, WA.
Thanks for reading,
Holly
P.S. I think I've reached my rant quota for the month of March.
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