I couldn’t agree with you more. I suppose I should just go ahead and say that using the word troll to make my point may have been excessive.
I'm glad you concede. It *was* excessive.
I certainly apologize for that. An experienced user of forums also understands that the spirit in which it was conceived was to learn together and encourage growth with the members.
Agreed.
Nobody has any idea how long this fellow spent looking for the answer.
I do. Less than 30 minutes, maybe less than 20, possibly less than 10. The soft button he was looking for is right there on the 'home page.' One doesn't even have to access the menu system to change the gimbal setting he was looking for. One can literally explore every option of the 'home page' in 10 minutes. So, yes, I'm pretty sure I know how much time he spent "searching" for his answer.
It could just as easily have been hours as it could have been less than 20 minutes.
I disagree. If you're spending hours with your "new drone" and haven't discovered every single option the Home Page has to offer, then I don't know what to say. You're in the wrong business and maybe you should just put down the control and sell the drone. A drone isn't a toy. It's a piece of (arguably dangerous) piece of technical equipment. If you lack the technical savvy to find the gimbal settings on the home page, then you honestly shouldn't be flying a drone the size of an Inspire 1.
Unfortunately some people just go ahead and call a guy like that lazy.
Aside from the fact that I didn't call anybody anything, I don't like using the word "stupid." I gave the OP the benefit of the doubt and used the word "lazy" instead.
I think that is a total **** move. Don’t you?
No sir. I don't want to be an enabler of bad behavior. And making the forum your go-to for every single basic question is the definition of bad behavior. As I stated earlier, the forum should be your second or third line of defense. Not your first.
The point of my post was two fold. Number one to thank the guy for taking the time to post what he learned. No joke, I had spent a lot of time looking for that answer however I am new to the use of inspire ones.
I find it almost ironic that it didn't occur to you to click the triangle icon on the left side of the screen:
Once you TOUCH it, it opens up a whole new world of options:
I don't think I would be too far off if I asserted that 90% of new users find this within 10 minutes of opening the app. It was literally one of the first things I clicked when I purchased my new Inspire 1 almost 5 years ago.
You will be dead wrong to think that because I’m new to using inspire that I am an Inexperienced pilot.
Touché. I'm sure I'm not the first person to recommend something simpler, smaller, cheaper and less complex for a first drone. But since it is your first drone, I would literally explore every single option the app has to offer BEFORE spinning up the motors. In fact, though I might connect and power up the drone, I would leave the props off so you can explore Willy-Nilly without fear of damaging your drone or your surroundings. That would be my STRONG recommendation. Literally, click every single soft button throughout the entire app. This should take about 20 minutes tops.
Certainly I have no say and how you choose to perceive the purpose of a forum.
If you see a forum as an immediate go-to for basic questions, then we can just agree to disagree. I don't know if you noticed, but this forum is VAST. Clogging it with simple, basic questions is not a good idea IMHO. We can agree to disagree.
I would just rather see people not be rude to each other when there is no reason to be.
The OP got a light slap on the hand. I feel the need to point out that I did NOT call anybody any names. I said, "Don't encourage people to be lazy." Before that I encouraged the OP to "explore the app." I was extremely polite IMHO.
We can go on and on and on about the psychological reasons that people do that but this is a DJI inspire 1 forum. It’s interesting to check out peoples number of posts versus time since joining the forum. I can assure you that I have at least 40 to 50 hours reading posts in this forum.
Good for you, sir. There is a myriad of knowledge here. I'm sure you've seen how deeply we dive into the Inspire 1, including software, firmware and hardware. Questions like "How do I start the motors" will be duly chastised.
I think this is my third post. I just don’t require attention like some people do. And I don’t have to try to make myself look smart at the expense of trying to make someone else look stupid.
If "explore the app" and "Don't encourage people to be lazy" is your idea of making someone look stupid, then again, we're going to have to agree to disagree. The OP received a very light slap on the hand, to which he went ballistic. So he and his ego have been duly noted. Were the shoe on the other foot, I would've humbled myself and agreed that I jumped the gun to the forum too quickly and that I should have taken more time to explore the app on my own before consulting experts. But that's just me, I guess.
Good day, sir.
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