I don't care if you don't search...

[Miscue]

I've been the new guy at other non-paintball forums, and it peeves me when someone tells me to do a search. It takes same amount of time just to answer question.

"How dare you ask such an elementary question that we all know the answer to!"

You gotta start somewhere.

Refine your search! To what? If you know what you're looking for then sure... but often those with questions don't know what they are looking for really... which is what happens when you're new at something. I think this applies to everybody.

[shartley]

Originally posted by Miscue
I've been the new guy at other non-paintball forums, and it peeves me when someone tells me to do a search. It takes same amount of time just to answer question.

"How dare you ask such an elementary question that we all know the answer to!"

You gotta start somewhere.

Refine your search! To what? If you know what you're looking for then sure... but often those with questions don't know what they are looking for really... which is what happens when you're new at something. I think this applies to everybody.

[spazzed]

Thank-you Sam. You said exactly what I wanted to say, only MUCH nicer

I don't mind answering questions. Like many of you, I try to help out whenever I can. But lately, people have been asking the Exact same questions, over & over again, and quite frankly, it's starting to piss me off. I'm not mad at the people, well, not much, but more or less annoyed at seeing the same thing keep coming up in such a short period of time.

[magman007]

Guys, The famous quote of mine in E==magmans sig is this "I mean sheesh, if your going to write a book on searching, you might as well write a paragraph about the answer."

I stand by this whole heartedly, and i do the same, i give the person the answer, then kindly and politely ask him to search.

I also thing there needs to be monthly search tests for ao.. You should gt a test, and have to reply in specific areas(you have to search for the area, and for the next one) with the link. THere fore all Aoers are up to par... Also, a search test for new members...