How to add value when commenting on Open Source project pages

When posting comments on sites like Arduino.cc, Instructables.com, raspberry pi.org or any other Open Source hub, aim to: contribute to the conversation, advance knowledge and help the author of the project. IT’S AN INCREDIBLE WASTE OF YOUR TIME TO ENGAGE IN ARGUMENTS!!

Some example comments and sentence starters …

“My brother and I had hours of fun working on this project – but on step 4 we ran into trouble because we had a Raspberry Pi 3, rather than a 4. Because of this, we had to …”

“This was a great learning experience for me! I never learned how to use the L298N motor driver before. I augmented your original design this way to make a self balancing robot … “

“This is a great example using an Arduino. Does anyone have any experience doing this same thing with Python on a Raspberry Pi?”

Thanks for the detailed list of instructions; I was able to get this going quickly … “

Never

“I can’t believe you chose to do this with UNIX! Everyone knows Windows 10 is the BEST OS ever!”

This project is a waste of disk space! Go back to Computer Science 101, you L-O-S-E-R!