When people put forward advice in this particular venue, they don't
necessarily speak in a bad tone just because they stick with bald facts.
Perhaps not everyone is equally comfortable with a keyboard, or they
themselves are not as familiar with English as you seem to think. Regardless
of the reason, it is common for advice here to be terse, and to focus very
narrowly on the action under discussion. If in doing this they fail to coddle
your sensitivities, that is unfortunate but not truly cause for you to complain.
If it were only "a terse tone" it might not be such an issue, and the
same if it were universal. But it's mostly just you and Andrew
Thompson, and it is probably just laziness rather than anything
nobler, and lastly, it goes considerably further than just "a terse
tone", often to the point of actually ordering the OP about with
imperative phrasing.
If you are not happy to receive advice here where mostly people come to ask
for advice, perhaps you are in the wrong venue.
A distinction can be made here that you are not making, namely between
the advice the OP specifically requests and unsolicited advice on
subjects ranging from tangential to completely irrelevant/orthogonal.
If someone posts code and asks why X isn't working, an answer
explaining why X isn't working is obviously welcome. It's very likely
pointing out a possibly-unnoticed bug Y in the same code would be
quite welcome too. Criticizing their English, which might not be their
main language, is another matter entirely; if you feel the need to
offer unsolicited advice in that area, perhaps it should be phrased
more diplomatically than the solicited advice at least?
