Gracious Professionalism > Ungracious Unprofessionalism

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

I agree 100%. All too often people just reply with "Search before you post" with a link and it always sounds very harsh to me. Honestly, I find the "Search before you post" people to be way more annoying (and rude) than the newbies asking simple questions.

To those who love to slam people with "Search before you post": maybe you should think twice before you reply too. If someone came up to you at a competition and asked you how many points a tetra on a goal was worth, would you snap back at them, "Read the manual!" I hope not.

I agree, granted I do see where koko Ed is coming from with the dozens of duplicate posts(The howstuffworks posts come to mind) I think that there are much nicer ways of letting people know that someone has alrady posted their topic.

I agree 100% with Tom Bottiglieri

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

I think some people just take all of this too seriously.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

The first one is lack of searching. I like to come on here partly and answer as many questions as I can to help as many people as I can. Especially during the build season, the number of posts just explodes.

Another thing is when people ask something that is clearly spelled out in the rules, like "how many CIM motors can we use?" The key to the success of electronic media is having good searching skills. Get some.

I agree! This is especially true in the Rules/Strategy forum. Someone asks a question that could have been answered just by looking in the right part of the rule book (usually game rules or robot building rules). Then someone else looks it up and responds. And about ten more people do the same with their take on it. Takes up time needed to build a robot...