When someone makes a thread, and they obviously didn't do some research on the subject beforehand, it is not your responsibility to go in and rip on them. There are a good number of you who see such a thread, go in, and start yelling "Mods, close this thread!", "Terminate this thread!", "Where are the mods?!?!?!?!?", "SEARCH first, n00b!", "You obviously didn't search you dummy!". No, no, no! Don't do that, because it upsets the new member, it's a waste of space, and it upsets me and other moderators.
If you see such a thread, you can go in, and politely explain, in detail, what they did wrong. Politely explain to them how to use and where to find the Search function; politely explain that the Read This threads have a good deal of information; politely explain that most everything has already been covered by another thread. It's not your job to be a jerk and spit on a new member who just happens to be excited at discovering a GT forum. It's not your job to tell the mods how to handle the situation – I get particularly annoyed when I receive a report along the lines of "Ban him, he's annoying me" or "Close this useless thread". We will decide how to handle the thread – whether it can be saved, if it needs to be closed, or if it needs to be round-filed. The last thing I need is for somebody to rudely tell me how to handle a thread that I haven't even seen yet. (I don't mind when people make suggestions as to where a thread should be moved.)