I took a look at your other questions for fun and most appear to be straightforward. The water meter one didn't show the direction of the water which is an important concept.
Your refrigerator question didn't get answered.
https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/applia...rk-409858.html. We missed it.
What ever happened?
My response would have been something like. Let it stand verticle for 24 hrs before plugging it in. The oil can shift and cause issues with the compressor. Shipping on it's side would depend on what side and it there were exposed outside coils.
Again, though it was unclear what didn't work. The light. The compressor would not turn on. Maybe confusion as to what is cooler. Waiting for it to get cold.
The Appliance area, I'll admit gets neglected a bit, because it's difficult because usually not enough info is supplied. Questions like "My Kenmore series 80 doesn't heat". And you have to infer it's a dryer. You don't know if it's electric or gas. You don't know what was tried. You don't have a model number. Although I'm not considered an expert there, I did put a sticky there for troubleshooting gas dryers and I think it's cut down the questions on gas driers. The powers that be won't let me have expert status there. So be it.
Remember, for us, some questions are easy, some are harder. Some just require too much effort.
We don't know the skill levels of the poster or even if the own a multimeter or even know how to use it. The way you present yourself, determines a lot how we answer questions. Sometimes we have to guess. We'll guess if it doesn't require too much effort.
I believe, capacity questions have come up in the past and we just said, "Have a load calculation performed" and that was it. While tk offered to do it, he may happen to have an expensive piece of software that allows him to do it easily.
We also learn from each other, but we better be prepared to be able to back statements up
Similarly in the HVAC forum, there are issues about AC and heater sizing. We tend to just say have a Manual D (Duct) or Manual J (Heat and AC load) calculations performed.
While I have done both and understand both it's just not easy to do. It might take 15 minutes when one has a $2000 software program and is able to do a 10 min walkthru of the property and knows all of the factors necessary for the locality.
I like what you said in post #15.
AT some point you have to draw the line in what you are willing to do and even what tools you would need to purchase for the job.
My mom had a broken stabilizer bar on her car $800-$850 estimate. Could I have done the job? I could do everything but a 4 wheel alignment for $75 and about $275 in parts.
We went to plan B. We didn''t tell the dealer what was wrong and she took it in for an oil change and had a coupon for a $300 inspection that included a suspension inspection and we also wanted the tires rotated.
Well, they didn't find the problem. I found it when I changed a tire when the low-air pressure light cam on. THEY were supposed to do an INSPECTION and they had the tires off.
Why couldn't they find it?
They told my mom the car would not be driveable with a broken stabilizer bar and REFUSED to take a look at it before she left.
Armed with pictures and a visit to the service manager who was angry, BTW and he offered to do the job for about $430 with shuttle service.
For yet another service which I found the problem. I blown valve cover gasket. The engine needed pulling. I could do it except for that minor point. Since I knew what was required, I checked a few things when they were done. They overfilled the oil by about 1.5" on the dipstick.
I think we learn here, we help here, we become better people here. Public relations is not my strong point, but I'm getting better because of this site. I'm also always learning here too.