Why are car audio people so d*** snobby? Why is it so hard to get legitimate help?

TheMostHated said:

Something I've yet to ever see. Music industry everyone is more than willing to help. Baseball, same. BMX, same. Car audio???? Ehhhhh..... Hahahaha. I've never seen so many people so quick to bash new comers. When they themselves (more than likely) started like me. Confused and lost, yet willing to learn. But, can't seem to get help, than didn't come from the side of a mouth under slanted eyes. Why is this??? I stopped reading replys on my truck stereo (or my "amp overheating" thread) when I realized that 9 out of 10 people only wanted to bash the brand I chose because(like everything else) I couldn't get help.

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Idk a lot of the time I see experienced people stepping up to help people with novice questions. Novices that pretend to know things however, get quickly humbled. Is it snobbery though? Or is it simply the same condescension you’d see from your average professor in response to the Dunning Kruger Award nominee challenging him?

You’ve gotta think, all walks of life frequent diyma -we’ve got 8 figure people contributing here (maybe even 9 with inflation as it is), and we’ve also got dirt poor students trying to patch together something 99% as good as what the 8 figure people are rolling. And it’s possible to do that thanks to the collective wisdom of this community.

The “snobbishness” in the air I’ve come to realize is not that at all. Instead, I would categorize it as apprehensiveness stemming from the fact that you can’t bs your way through anything here. People at the top of their field, people with post grad work done, trolls that can win any debate - whoever - they all still have to yield to those who know car audio.

And let’s not forget that the audio realm is one of the few places where science and belief MUST coexist due to the inherent subjective, individual perception of sound that to date, is still not fully quantifiable. That’s a powerful index of potential incompatibilities, and yet we still do alright here most of the time.

I think it’s normal to feel like it’s snobbery, but once you peel back the layers, you’ll begin to understand that it’s simply a diverse group of people congregating to share wisdom (and gear) in a hobby where bs is commonplace, but quickly exposed and rooted out. IOW, don’t fake the funk, just be honest with what you don’t know and people will go out of their way to help.

Let me present you snobbery because i haven't found any on your post:

You have poor install with bunch of excessive cables running around. Who knows what else is there🤷‍♂️...I usually bypass those kind of posts where few of them try with all mighty good old "are your grounds good." Funny thing is how you didn't bother to do half decend install but bothered go full snowflake mode here.