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Originally Posted by gblake
A) B) I'm sincerely curious why you chose to label the hypothetical OP as "lazy" and the hypothetical responder as "rude". Aren't they both lazy? Or both rude? What justifies painting them with different brushes?
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Sure, I can see your point there. Of course, the hypothetical OP might also simply lack the requisite subject knowledge or searching proficiency to come up with decent search terms. I suspect that's pretty common in light of the fact that a lot of people are pretty impatient, and it's faster to use a search engine than to wait for a human to respond. So I shouldn't imply that being lazy/rude is the only explanation for people who post questions that would seem pretty easy to look up.
For anybody who wants to be a helpful forum poster but also doesn't want to see the place clogged up with the same easily answered questions all the time, I think it makes the most sense to answer the question and also point out that you can find it in a search in the same reply.
Anybody who doesn't have time to provide an answer to a question could save even more of their time by not replying with a "go look it up."