[Brandon Martus]

Thank you Karthik.

I had been meaning to post something like this today at some point -- this "read the manual" or 'RTFM' or 'search!' auto-response is unnecessary. Katie has the right idea .. I'd hope those of us who have been around for a while would be able to help as much as Katie. Help a person out politely on how to properly ask, search, etc., and they'll start to do it the right way. If not .. then take it up with them in e-mail/private message and make sure they know what's wrong with how they're asking questions.

If these one-word, rude responses continue we may have the moderators start removing them. I'd hate to have to add one more task to the moderators' jobs, so let's try to be proactive and helpful, rather than trying to be the first to say 'hey, read the manual.'