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What should we do when the answer is, “we already tried that and it did not work?”

I’d probably ask questions:What went wrong?Why do you think it didn’t work as planned?Was there anything else at the time that might have had an impact?How would things change if we swapped X for Y and tried again?Is there are new way available now of doing a similar thing?Questions are better than arguments for getting others to critically evaluate a suggestion. In the best case, you might turn a sceptic around - who may then ‘have just had a great idea’. This will be your idea, led to by your questions, but at least this way it gets done, and we’re all happy with the new-found “buy-in”.But you have to face it. Sometimes, it just means ‘I’m not interested. Please don’t mention this again’.

What should I do if my answer requests on Quora are not being answered by that person?

What should you do?Re that person, nothing.Re your question, ask more people, if you haven't already gotten enough good answers.Understand that Quora doesn't do a particularly good job of suggesting names to request answers from.Understand that it's your job to check and edit the topics assigned to your question.Understand that if you want a better requests to results ratio, you need to do more work.Understand that no one has any obligation to answer your question, whether you send a request or not.Understand that a poorly written question is less likely to get answered.Understand that if you send me a request to answer a question, I will deal with it as I see fit. Which includes merging, downvoting, reporting, and even reporting your profile for a fake name or spam.What should I do if my answer requests on Quora are not being answered by that person?

What should I do when my answer collapsed on Quora?

Simply forget the matter.Go to the next question and answer it.That’s what I do. Sometimes I simply delete my answer.Many times I don’t even come to know that an answer of mine has been collapsed.More than 20 answers of mine have been collapsed for various reasons.An appeal worked only in two cases.Nowadays I don’t even bother to appeal.These collapses are done automatically by bots programmed to do so based on some algorithms that may not be fool proof.Small errors like the absence of a full stop at the end of the first line have caused collapses due to poor formatting.Sometimes if your answer begins with non Roman letters, a collapse is triggered off suspecting ‘language is not English’.Sometimes a collapse results when someone reports an answer. The bots can’t judge. Only a human can do so. So they collapse first and then wait for an appeal which will be handled by a human moderator if he has time to look into thousands of such cases.Traffic on Quora is awesome. They don’t have manpower to handle all the work. So the bots take the brunt of the grunt work. When even humans can err you can well imagine how badly bots can err. These setbacks are common and not worth fretting and fuming over.Hope this makes you feel better.GV

I'm never able to answer in vivas. What should I do?

Thank you for the A2A. My advice for vivas would be : put things in perspective. Don't build the viva up into this huge unconquerable monster. Think about how much of an effect the viva will have on your marks. Sometimes, your experiment will go so well you'll  probably get the marks you want without even answering the viva. (One of my classmates has even walked out of the lab without giving viva because it didn't affect his grades) So don't give the viva so much importance and you'll find it easier to tackle.

What should one do if a friend asks for the answers on a homework/test, and you don't want to share them?

Thanks for the A2A!Generally, "cheating is bad". And, if they are really your friend(s), they won't "like someone else better". But anyway, here is what you can do:Tell them you will help when you finish. Take your time. And before the end, pass then some of the answers, or leave little time for them.Anyway, I did that like two-three times and then I stopped caring. None of them will be better off later. Nothing beats skill earned through hard work.

What should I do if I don't know the answer to a question posed by a student?

This reminds me this summer when I taught toefl to a group of four students, all college students in a training school, one girl asked me an English question how to say 选修课 (namely elective courses), I forgot this word elective or optional, it was very embarassing at that time. I could see that student question my authority as a teacher who teaches toefl writing. Actually , I know the English word but could not give answer to students on the spot.Thus, what have I learned? As a teacher, always be prepared. Try to accumulate more in the subject you teach or good at. An expert teacher is the one who can answer any questions to students.

What should be the reply for "How do you do?"?

The proper response is always the same back: "How do you do?" Nothing to precede it like "Fine," "Good," "Fabulous," etc.The phrase "How do you do?" is a formulaic greeting trigger. It's a cultural trigger for first-time introduction in the English-speaking world. Don't fumble this.Please, it's not literally an enquiry (even a formulaic one) about our current state of well-being... "How do you do?" isn't the same as "How are you?" or "How's it going, mate?"Perhaps quite a few people here are a bit young to know this. Back in my very young days in the 1960s, we still had schoolmistresses (they're always schoolmistresses) who 'taught' kids about these little social niceties. In my day too, it was still acceptable to reference social niceties to social class -- and I'm pretty sure not much has changed since then, even though this social class thing is not so politically correct to mention anymore.Here's the deal -- take it for what it's worth:-"How do you do?"Response: "How do you do?" -- marks you as 'middle' middle class and up.Response: "Fine, how do you do?" -- lower middle class and down.We now live in a more democratic, more informal world, so we are allowed to respond differently.