Stop with the "RTFM" stuff

[Matt Krass]

People often tell me their RTFM posts are because people asking redundant questions answered in the manual clutter the forums. Well here's a newsflash, posting "RTFM" and nothing else is going to bring your thread to the top of the portal, and fill it up with something truly useless.

Seriously, if you're so high up on your pedestal you can only be bothered to scold others without actually doing anything helpful, then please just shut up.

Yes, I said shut up, yes it's rude, so are the people that just say RTFM and nothing else.

If someone posts something obviously in the manual, then post the section, or their answer and a reminder to look at the manual, maybe a hint on how to found certain bits and pieces. I can say as a programmer I focused on those aspects of the manual and its a big manual, so its not always intuitive where the other stuff is, it's pretty easy to miss stuff. We can all help promote manual reading by helping people understand how to find things, and by encouraging (not berating!) them to look in the manual more deeply.

That's my two and change.