I'm sure you have also been able to discern where and when posters have been given "the what for" because the answer to their question(s) is in a sticky and they simply haven't given the effort to peruse the forums and instead opted for the "post-and-I-better-get-an-answer-dammit!" method.

thanks,

the Monk

Also, despite what your teachers said, there's both such thing as a dumb question, but also dumb statements, and simply dumb people.

Emphasis mine.

You've pretty much wrecked your thread's message by being just as assumptive, if not insulting, as the people you point out. Not all of the forum members are that way - not even close.

Athough I'll certainly acknowledge that some of the replies are rude and boorish, and it's usually by the same bunch of people, some of the questions or the "rules" that the OP's try to impose on their threads are just as rude and boorish.

I'll add to the_monk's post that there are a great many posts that are civilly and nicely answered, even if those answers were obvious or recently already given. I start getting annoyed when the same poster asks two or three different questions that are clearly documented in the manual or answered on the first couple pages of these forums with a thread title that is very clear - they're just trying to make others do all the 'work' for them.

-- Retro