The strange ways of the newbie (ranting and insulting here)

[Bushido Philosopher]

THE pet peeve of everyone in this place.

Just looking over some posts and found one that especially bugged me out of my mind:
How do you get FMVs from Playstation games?

Now ordinarily we would all be nice to the newbie and just point him to the right guides, but then I looked at how many posts he's done and it was te first one he's ever made.

Now I have a question:
Should we really answer the question at all if they don't have enough sense to just look for it in the guides? And for their first post to be a total obvious answer....

Not to be some kinda jerk or anything, but cmon, it's RIGHT THERE IN FREAKING FRONT OF YOU!!! (Plus, other clueless ones have asked the questions already so it's also in the forum database.)

However, of course there are the newbies that have actually been OK and have at least TRIED to read the guides. Admittedly, the guides are a bit confusing for the new user -- my opinion anyway.

So maybe we should just ignore the obvious questions or get the moderators to delete them or something?

Just my little ranting....sorry.

[Lyrs]

I have a feeling this is what jbone would say:

Jbone: This belongs in the Off Topics forum.

Anyway, newb's or not, people are ignorant at heart and too highly hasty.

[AMVUserII]

THE pet peeve of everyone in this place.

Just looking over some posts and found one that especially bugged me out of my mind:
How do you get FMVs from Playstation games?

Now ordinarily we would all be nice to the newbie and just point him to the right guides, but then I looked at how many posts he's done and it was te first one he's ever made.

Now I have a question:
Should we really answer the question at all if they don't have enough sense to just look for it in the guides? And for their first post to be a total obvious answer....

Not to be some kinda jerk or anything, but cmon, it's RIGHT THERE IN FREAKING FRONT OF YOU!!! (Plus, other clueless ones have asked the questions already so it's also in the forum database.)

However, of course there are the newbies that have actually been OK and have at least TRIED to read the guides. Admittedly, the guides are a bit confusing for the new user -- my opinion anyway.

So maybe we should just ignore the obvious questions or get the moderators to delete them or something?

Just my little ranting....sorry.

Sorry can't do that.....Phade has a policy on this site that we atleast try to answer or to direct the poster in the right direction. So they can get the answer there looking for. By just deleting posts like that your detracting the interest of others. And thats not how Phade wants things run. Its just better to either you yourself ignore those kind of posts or if you do reply make it a sensible reply.....not a flame.
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[iserlohn]

I would argue that an appropriate response is to point someone to the appropriate guide, not to give them a full answer, and politely but firmly remind them to check the guides in the future when they have questions. Come to think about it, maybe the Adopt-A-Newbie thing isn't such a bad idea...Limit one per creator...

[RichLather]

Does that we the ones that go unadopted get put to sleep after a week?

(running away, very fast)

[ErMaC]

"Sorry timmy - we had to put RamonesFan down." I'm sorry.

[Rozard]

I'd say something, but there's no way I can top that.

[_faerie_]

hello ok I can see y you're really pissed off at that person...but even I don't get those stupid guides...that's why i post those one's asking you guys because you guys might make more sense.

[AbsoluteDestiny]

you guys might make more sense.

not likely - two of the people on this thread wrote those "stupid guides"

[_faerie_]

i was hoping for help...