# You can't ask for help on the SDMB

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-ask-for-help-on-the-sdmb/945539>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 2, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-ask-for-help-on-the-sdmb/945539 "2021-07-02T21:08:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-ask-for-help-on-the-sdmb/945539/5 "2021-07-02T21:21:09Z")

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I’m not a moderator, unlike @Chronos, but I imagine that you could have posted the request in the [Marketplace](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/marketplace/23) and had a better response. You’re a Charter Member so you should have access to create a thread there. Also, I don’t think your request would violate the [rules](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marketplace-rules/563403) in that forum, maybe if you ask him he would reopen it and move it there?

I suspect that it was your aggressive stance that got the thread closed, though.

> Objections to my request and attempts to tell me how I’m wrong will be ignored when they are put in this thread. Just stop. The fact that the physics classes teach it this way does not mean it’s the real explanation.

Starting off a thread in such an authoritarian way does not bode well, which might be why he said…

> [@Explain gyroscopic precession - I'll pay you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-gyroscopic-precession-ill-pay-you/945445/3):
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> I can’t see any way this thread ends well.

But who knows, I’m not a mind-reader.

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