But then there are times when I have some sort of a technical question and have to head over to a really big sub with like 300k users. I always feel like no matter how nice I make my post that I'm going to get bitched at. For example a few weeks ago I went to the /vinyl sub. There is a modern record player called the "Jensen JTA-222" that is pretty poor quality. Before I posted I saw other threads on there from a few years ago about them saying how horrible it was or someone asking if they should buy one and everyone saying no because it is terrible. So I make a thread saying how I picked one up from the thrift store for $5 and that I knew it would be a low quality player but I was surprised just how low quality it was. So I was agreeing with that they'd said about it in the past. The thread is currently at a 0 with a 45 percent upvote rating and I'm getting replies like
"Think most folks here understand buying a $5 thrift store turntable of any reasonable branding would require refurbishment and reconditioning to make it functional."
"Dude buys a broken record player that a thrift store was selling for $5 because it's broken, and then complains that it's broken. Wow! Such insight!"
Nowhere it my post did I say anything about or make it seem that it was broken. I was just pretty much saying "Wow this is worse than I thought it would be" Yet everyone immediately jumps on me like "what an idiot!" I feel like that is generally the case when you post in a big subreddit that you're not a member of.
What prompted me to make this topic is I was messing around with Sega Saturn emulation and downloaded the latest version of Mednafen. But it is a command line based emulator so I also wanted the Frontend for it. It looks like the best frontend is Medgui Reborn so I download it from the official Sourceforge page. But when I download it gives me a virus warning.
That seems odd. I know things like cracks show up as false positives a lot of the time but it seems odd to me that something like a frontend for a Sega Saturn emulator would have a false positive. So I went over to the emulation sub to ask about it. I basically said. I tried to search if anyone else had the same problem but wasn't finding anything. Is it a false positive or should I not download it to be safe? I'm well aware of things like cracks showing up as a virus but I don't understand why something like this would show as a virus.
I feel like I'm going to either get no replies or negative replies. Maybe something like "It's a false positive dude, why are you trusting Windows Defender it sucks"
Lol but idk we'll see. I'm leaning more towards no responses. Do you feel the same way about bigger subreddits? That when you show up as a newbie you usually don't get a warm welcome?
