wilsonk
this just seemed like a cool place when I first found it not that long ago. The ONLY negative are those that respond to most questions with "that has been covered" or "use the search function". If it is that bad that you have to f up the flow then just delete any and all threads that don't please you. Since your attitude is that we are here to provide original content for you guys that have read everything. a little bit gets old in a hurry. I will not be a long term contributor as many people won't because this is a cool place f'd up by the "search function police".
If I am the only one that feels this way, then I should be banned forever, but I am not.
Try being a long term contributor who has watched a cool place continually screwed up -
that F word you keep almost using is prohibited by the AUP - by people who will are too lazy to look past the end of their noses to find anything. Notice that people who say "I tried looking for this, but I didn't really find what I was looking for" rarely get flamed if they can demonstrate that they've made a little effort to help themselves.
People who don't see a topic that is 2 screen inches below the
New Thread button rarely become long term contributors, anyway. It happens occasionally. But saying "I don't have time to look" or "I'm too lazy" (which people have actually said) is not a great way to start a career here.
If you're too busy or too lazy to look for yourself, how dare you expect that we sit here and spoon feed you? Why is our time and effort less valuable than yours?
So, in short, if you don't like it, instead of complaining about it, shut up and put your money where your mouth is. You told me to "stand up and take charge".
So I'll tell you that you just volunteered for the job of leading each lazy idiot to the answer they want, or fetching it for them, so that nobody has to tell them to search.
I'll expect to see you filling that role, or I'll expect you to drop the subject. Or you'll find out about the "And..?" part of me being an admin.
wilsonk
Dude, go hit the bong again, you are making no sense with this one. Why don't you guys in the Search Function Police make this forum private so us noobs don't constantly offend you.
Because that's not the vision the site Owner has for his forum. He envisions a large group of intelligent witty people discussing their favorite topics - GT, cars, and other things. It's a great vision and those of us on staff and the active members are doing our best to make that happen, in return for the expense and effort put in by the site's Owner (who isn't me, by the way).
For what it's worth, we don't like stupid or lazy
old members, either. So it's not an automatic n00b thing. Take a look at the join dates of somebody like
rk or
Scaff.
Servers don't slow down because of amount of content, has to do with bandwidth, so your statement reads "if everyone were able to repeat questions, we would be so popular with people sticking around and actually enjoying themselves, our servers would slow down".....I guess to you, that is a bad thing....
And the reason bandwidth is a problem is... large amounts of useless content getting posted and read? Duh?
Having been through massive server slowdowns, crashes and hosting relocations caused by huge volumes of new members repeating thousands of posts as the pre-GT4 fever caught on around the world, I can definitively tell you "it's a bad thing."
