I absolutely have. I've just been frustrated this past week looking up thinks like "Why does everybody hate Monsanto?" or "What constitutes fair use?" or "does premiere pro support closed captioning?" or other related topics.
I ALWAYS seem to land on a forum with 4 posts. It's the question at post #1.. posts 2-4 are all saying "jesus just google it!" or "Learn how to use the search function." and then the mod closes the thread.
Mother****! I'm someone NEW and I'm finding this post THROUGH search! So then I try to use the search function on the site and can't because it's closed unless I register. All of a sudden I'm taking 10 minutes and opting into a newsletter to find out if it's normal that my cat has bad breath.
I just think it might be good for the life of the forum if there were at least resources given, even if they WERE just links to google searches that provide actual results, to give newcomers years down the road SOME sort of value. If I ran a forum those are the type of rules I'd implement to ensure lasting value and encourage new blood.
Understand the frustration.....but think about what you would've had to do 10 years ago when Google barely existed......
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