[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by Chris-777

Agreed.

If someone can take the time to reply with "Search on this", they should back up the fact that the search would actually be helpful by posting a link.

It's the nature of the internet unfortunately. Sometimes people just like to be rude to one another. :\ For a perfect example of threads that make me say "My goodness, what a bunch of jerks", take a look at some of the comments in Danny.VBT's myspace hack thread. It's full of people with no code experience insulting him because their free, beta hack isn't working/finished/etc. It's disgraceful.

And since we're playing the honesty game, I cannot understand why this is tolerated at all:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....64&postcount=6

Quite right.

I think the point is not that people should be forced to endlessly answer pointless questions, merely that the way things are said has beome rude.

If you think someone should have read the thread before asking, what's wrong with saying:

Hi. You'll find the answer to your question in this thread, might be towards the start but I can't remember offhand

As opposed to what we currently get, which tends to be:

Did you bother to actually read the thread before asking stupid questions?

With the best will in the world, faced with these threads with 500 replies, it's likely people might miss the odd post or two even if they DID read it.