I am sorry but I can't see how Jackie is even close to hitting the nail on the head, let alone the barn.
I seem to remember Jackie that you have been here long enough to know, but if my memory fails me here, let me refresh your memory where mine is still intact.
Not answering questions has been tried. Quite a fair share of them don't get answered at all. Usually that leads to the question being bumped by the author, who, depending on the person in question, lets of steam. The amount of steam swings between, "okay you guys really annoy me, so..." to regular lowbrow abuse. Quite often, the thread is even bumped before it reaches page 2, and in some cases it is bumped even before 1 hour has passed. The same problem and the same conflict, the only thing that happens is that the conflict is delayed and a few are avoided. But the basic problem is still there and its just as present and is just as frustrating for both parties as before...
We have several questions that have been "top of the month" which where repeated endlessly. As far as I recollect, we even had those with GP3 ("Old Nürburgring" or "More than 11 teams" anyone?). They come and they go, sometimes there are many, sometimes few. But they don't go away...
The lack of thought and effort that comes before these questions are sometimes just an insult. I remember several "top of the month" question threads that were present on page 1, at the same time! How much thought do you put behind your actions when you ask a question that is asked in the header of a thread six places down? He could just have clicked one of the other guys questions, and see what information they had gotten. But no... What does that kind of actions say about how those that ask percieve us? We are not here to beg and serve.
Isn't it normal when you come someplace you have not been before that you look around and have a taste of how things work and who people are before you act up? Don't you do that when your friends invite you over to some place you have not been at before? Why should it be different here?
In any case, abuse of those that ask "stupid" questions, is not acceptable. But I don't really see that this is the case. Answering people in such a fashion that they are empowered to help themselves, both now and in the future can hardly be construed as an insult. If you entered a shopping mall, and asked a bypasser if they sold this and that kind of shoes, and he answered (probably he would answer: sorry, I don't work here) "There is a map of the complex over there, and there you can find out how to get the information you need", would you then cry foul play? Would you even cry foul play if the answer was "sorry, I don't work here"?
Playing the "you oldtimers are evil to the n00bs" card always yields a lot of sympathy. But it doesn't necessarily make it a fact, nor enlighten the problems at hand or the solution to those problems.
Post Edited (07-07-03 21:38)
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