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Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe
My point was that not all of us have been reading the forums and Q&A all day to be able to think "Oh, I saw that somewhere." If you are tired of answering people then don't answer, there is no need to insult anyone.
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Excuse me - I've insulted someone by pointing out why it might be in their best interest to do a simple search before asking a question?
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Originally Posted by Chris is me
No one's obligating you to answer questions - all we're asking is that people don't treat rookie teams like they're complete idiots because they're confused. If you're tried of answering the same question repeatedly, and can't tell someone to check the Q&A and Manual in a nice way, you can just ignore the thread.
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Which I believe I pointed out I do - I simply don't answer questions that have been answered a day or two before, or have been asked repeatedly.
I don't assume rookie teams are helpless, but I do have empathy for how confusing some of the rules can be.
Every team - rookie and veteran alike - should have someone devoted to reading the Q&A. It doesn't take that long. The GDC generally answers a handful of questions at one time; the most I've seen is roughly a pageful on any given day. And they don't answer questions every day. That way when a team has a question, they can ask their Q&A specialist if they recall anything about that topic. Or you might have more than one Q&A specialist, each devoted to a different section of the Q&A, to spread the workload if it's too much for one person.