karling07
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I'm not trying to start a rant here or anything, because I love CF and I love helping people/the help I get from others. But would some of the people that post here mind THAT much to just do some research before posting their problems?
I find that I can answer more than half of the questions asked by copying their error message or a simple description of the problem into google, and it will be the correct solution.
Examples:
Question: "Where can I find a free AVI-->DVD converter?"
Google Search: Freeware "AVI to DVD"
Question: "I am getting error message X"
Google Search: X
Question: "My hard drive is clicking, why?"
Google Search: Clicking Hard Drive
Clearly there are problems that google DOESN'T answer, and it's obvious that a lot of people do their research before asking. It just frustrates me when I do a search for the problem and the solution is within the top 5 results.
I'm not at all the "RTFM" type of person, but you won't learn just by having others do what you could have done in seconds... All it takes is a few keywords and looking at the first few pages that your search engine gives back.
I'm not saying, "Instead of asking questions to people who know what they're talking about, why don't you never use this forum and just do it yourself", I just think it's reasonable to expect that people could do a TINY bit of research themselves.
I find that I can answer more than half of the questions asked by copying their error message or a simple description of the problem into google, and it will be the correct solution.
Examples:
Question: "Where can I find a free AVI-->DVD converter?"
Google Search: Freeware "AVI to DVD"
Question: "I am getting error message X"
Google Search: X
Question: "My hard drive is clicking, why?"
Google Search: Clicking Hard Drive
Clearly there are problems that google DOESN'T answer, and it's obvious that a lot of people do their research before asking. It just frustrates me when I do a search for the problem and the solution is within the top 5 results.
I'm not at all the "RTFM" type of person, but you won't learn just by having others do what you could have done in seconds... All it takes is a few keywords and looking at the first few pages that your search engine gives back.
I'm not saying, "Instead of asking questions to people who know what they're talking about, why don't you never use this forum and just do it yourself", I just think it's reasonable to expect that people could do a TINY bit of research themselves.