Please see this discussion here for how an exchange here can go smoothly.
The person asking doesn’t seem to be more experienced than you (possibly less), but is doing the necessary checks and experiments to figure out what is unclear and asks concise questions when encountering unexpected behavior. Overall, not very different conceptually from your kind of problem, but executed in a way that it was easy and convenient to provide helpful answers and demonstrating that an effort was made to solve the problem without additional help and thus asking only when reaching a dead end and with suitable explanations and reasoning.