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This is the old internet mindset, which apparently is not appreciated anymore. I agree with you, nobody that is helping strangers out of love and compassion, w
by douche 10y ago
This is the old internet mindset, which apparently is not appreciated anymore. I agree with you, nobody that is helping strangers out of love and compassion, with no dollar signs attached to that role, should go out of their way to suffer fools. I guess the days of BBS's and forums with always-stickied "Search the site first" and "For Beginners" threads is in the past.
- k__ 10y agoah yes. the thousands of moderators that thundered at you with "USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION!!" while the first 10 result pages just yielded topics of people who got told they should use the search function. merry days...
- douche 10y agoInevitably leading to innumerable "the search function is broken" threads... I really miss forums, in some ways. There are so few of them that are really active these days.
- k__ 10y agoI liked them for their community character, this is totally missing in wikipedia, stackexchange and HN, but these three are still better information sources than the forums back in the days.
- DanBC 10y agoAnd one person saying "never mind, solved it." with no further information about what they did.
- DanBC 10y ago> I guess the days of BBS's and forums with always-stickied "Search the site first" and "For Beginners" threads is in the past. Whenever you have a problem of people doing something you don't want them to do your last solution should be "let's put a sign up".