Never feel afraid to take people to task for stupid comments, if only to point out that their comment only managed to waste both your time. I completely agree

Never feel afraid to take people to task for stupid comments, if only to point out that their comment only managed to waste both your time. I completely agree with you though. I find I have to be very defensive with my question asking these days. I spend time explaining what I've searched for. You still get people telling you it's so obvious a monkey could have found it, but there's generally less talk of me being lazy. Just stupid. FWIW I'm a moderator on another big SE site and I try to put those sorts of people in their place. It's completely counter productive to be so combative with question-askers... But some people just want to moan.