In my org there are a few persons who really like to link to this site.
It often comes of as condescending. Like, “are you sure you really know what you’re doing?”.
In their case, it’s also a giveaway that they are not good at seeing things from someone else’s perspective. Because if they were, they could approach the question in a much more constructive and graceful manner.
Of course you don't really know what you're doing. That's why you asked for help doing it. That's the whole meaning of the question. The error is not in the answerer assuming the asker doesn't know what he's doing, the error is in the asker treating the ability to ask the right question about the problem as a different category of ability than the one required to solve the problem, and so getting offended about the additional implication they don't have that former after admitting they don't have the latter.
It often comes of as condescending. Like, “are you sure you really know what you’re doing?”.
In their case, it’s also a giveaway that they are not good at seeing things from someone else’s perspective. Because if they were, they could approach the question in a much more constructive and graceful manner.