a94060 wrote:look man,i know,you know,the rest of the community knows that GOOGLE has the answer. If we all know,then WHY IS THIS FORUM MADE? It is made for those who are not as godly users at google as you are.
Uh, no. This forum was made to help people that have at least tried something that doesn't work no matter what they try. We are not here to be a personal developer to anyone. We are here to help people learn.
a94060 wrote:I am just asking for a simple example, and your saying it as if i am asking YOU personally to help me.
When you come to the community with 'I haven't searched yet, I haven't tried yet and even though you supplied lots of links to the answers I need, I am not willing to try to learn something on my own' you are essentially asking the community to do something for you. At least this is how most of the common contributors see things.
a94060 wrote:I have lately been relizing that only the moderators end up giving answers like RTFM or google it,why is this?
Because we, as moderators, have a vested interest in making sure this community serves the people that are using it. It is our job to make sure the forums are moderated, and as such, we are here more than a lot of other regular contributors.
a94060 wrote:I am starting something new,i know there is google,i can reinvent the wheel if i want to. Heck,i bet everything in this forum is probably somewhere on the internet. This is just my view,i have been seeing that now people are starting to play god and taking time to post remarks such as just google it,or read the manual.
Playing God? Hardly. If you were here reading 60 to 100 posts a day on 'Why am I getting this header already sent error' or 'Why doesn't my file upload work' when the answers are already out there (even on these forums as you have already said) you'd start telling people to search too.
Can you imagine how helpful we could be to everyone if all the people that post questions that have already been answered tried to actually find the answer for themselves instead of relying on someone to answer their question as though it were the first time it had ever been asked? And how is someone supposed to know if their question has been asked/answered before? They search. They try stuff. They actually do something for themselves before asking someone to do it for them.
And that is all we are asking of anyone that posts here. Try something on your own before asking someone to do it for you.