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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Blake,
If someone shot you an e-mail or PM with such a question, sure, respond in a short fashion according to your own time limits.
However, this is a public forum. If you don't have time to post more than "read the manual," you should probably simply let someone else respond to the question.
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Someone else likely will. Until they do, the person asking the question will know that the answer they want is in whatever manual is mentioned in the short answer.
That person asking the question can also assume that the person who wrote the short reply is either busy (but still wanted to help), or is teaching them what others have surely already tried to teach them about asking good questions, or is rude.
Why assume "rude"? What gives anyone the justification to apply a blanket label of "that came from someone rude." to a short reply?
Why tell people who are willing to take the time to supply a short, useful answer, that their attempt to help isn't needed/allowed?
Answering my own questions, I know that I get irritated by people who fail to do their own homework/prep, and whose sloppy questions waste other people's time. And, the more often it occurs the more irritated I get. And the more irritated I get, the greater the chance I will be rude.
But, that does not mean that a short "Read the XYZ manual." isn't the best help someone could offer at the moment, or that it doesn't explicitly and implicitly contain a valuable, practical lesson for someone learning how to ask good questions. Absent evidence, I believe it would be rude to think otherwise.
YMMV
Blake