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Scooby: because that's not the way the world works! Are you seriously telling me that if your friend asks you a question that you know the answer to, you would tell him to go somewhere else to get the answer, instead of taking 3 seconds to just tell him?
I don't know where you're from, but in all the countries I've been that's socially unacceptable. You either pretend you don't know or you just tell him! And if you feel like pontificating, and your friend takes the time to explain that he HAS already tried to find the answer, it's doubly socially unacceptable to continue to berate him.
You know I'm right about this. But for some reason, all of a sudden social etiquette goes right out the window when it comes to some forums. This does not happen in all forums - but if in some forums certain folks start this holier than thou attitude - everyone then has the same attitude - just like the monkey social experiment where everyone just follows the status quo.
The bottom line is - most people aren't asking to be spoon-fed. They just tried looking and for some stupid reason they can't find the answer. Sometimes I am in a store, and ask the sales guy where something is - only to be told that I'm standing right in front of it. This has happened to everyone before I'm sure. I'm not trying to be a jerk, it's just that sometimes you just can't see something that may be obvious to "locals".
My point is, I think it's poor spirit if everyone on a forum just assumes that newbies are being "jerks" by supposedly wanting to be "spoon-fed". Why have such cynicism? Would it not be better to give people the benefit of the doubt. But hey - whatever right? I can't force you to become a better person.
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