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While I agree with the first, I don't see how the second follows. Would an adjustment in delivery to be more like "These are methods for solving problem X that worked for me, in case you hadn't considered attempting something similar in solving X for yourself." be more acceptable?
Unless you're against the personal-self-help-story sort of writing in its entirety for other reasons?
I guess I'm just asking for an elaboration on why you wouldn't want to see this sort of writing.
ETA: Or... exactly what jsalvatier just said.
If they did follow paper-machine would have been making an error. The grammatical structure is "not because (), but because()".