Question about the forum

[jmyler]

Is it just me or does this forum seem like a place where people come in to ask(usuall dumb questions) then get the answer and leave. It's mainly why i don't hang around here TOO often.
Most forums i go to there are a group of people that always hang around and answer questions and are knowledgable and all that good stuff. Here it usually goes something like this...

Question: I can't get music on my iPhone help me!!!!!

Anwers:A: You are a moron

B: You don't deserve an iPhone

C: You should jailbreak your phone then you will be able to put music on it

D: Then one more answer that usually helps the person out, then they are gone,
never to help anyone else out again..... in walks new guy number 2

Question: "I can't hear the speaker on my iPhone when i'm at the beach and the waves are crashing and planes are flying over and the wind is blowing, why is there a speaker on there at all then. I can hear my $10 cd player from wal-mart at the beach

Answers: A: You are a moron

B: You don't deserve an iPhone

C: jailbreaking makes your speaker louder

D: Don't question the iPhone it's the greatest invention ever.

Then the debate over why the speaker sucks continues.

Anyway i like coming on and helping people but it seems a little wierd in here at times, and like it's mostly 13 year olds that mom just bought an iPhone for. This isn't meant to be a blow to anyone just an observation.
Answers

[jason72780]

It's just like pretty much any other anonymous medium. People who are bigger behind a screen( or phone). There are some bad questions, I may have asked a few in my time, and bad answers but there is also some good questions and helpful answers. It's pretty much self censoring and trusting more those people who time after time give good info

[jmyler]

It's just like pretty much any other anonymous medium. People who are bigger behind a screen( or phone). There are some bad questions, I may have asked a few in my time, and bad answers but there is also some good questions and helpful answers. It's pretty much self censoring and trusting more those people who time after time give good info

I may should have specified, i think asking questions no matter how stupid are fine, but learn from them and stick around and help others out is what i'm getting at. Thats how a board gets established and fun and informational to come to.

[Code Monkey]

I am not a believer in the no stupid questions mantra. Simple questions that can be answered via Google or the search function really should never be asked again and there's only so much patience you can expect from regulars the 173rd time they've clicked on some poorly titled thread only to see it's someone who wants to know how they can copy their music from their iPod (literally the first thing if you click on the Help! topic from the main page) or what they can use besides iTunes.

Regulars stick around for a lot of reasons, and helping people is part of that, but spoon feeding the lazy doesn't fall under that heading in my book. You'll notice that well thought out, semi-different or semi-complex questions get far better reception than questions that could have been answered in under 5 minutes with some self-guided research or questions that are so poorly worded that no one has more than a vague clue what the person is talking about.

[jmyler]

I am not a believer in the no stupid questions mantra. Simple questions that can be answered via Google or the search function really should never be asked again and there's only so much patience you can expect from regulars the 173rd time they've clicked on some poorly titled thread only to see it's someone who wants to know how they can copy their music from their iPod (literally the first thing if you click on the Help! topic from the main page) or what they can use besides iTunes.

Regulars stick around for a lot of reasons, and helping people is part of that, but spoon feeding the lazy doesn't fall under that heading in my book. You'll notice that well thought out, semi-different or semi-complex questions get far better reception than questions that could have been answered in under 5 minutes with some self-guided research or questions that are so poorly worded that no one has more than a vague clue what the person is talking about.

Yea i totally agree with you on that one, but it's not the question that is stupid it's the person asking it. If the person comes in and has an intelligent question about adding music and uses correct grammar and acts like a normal human being then i don't mind helping them. If it's all in lowercase, no punctuation at all and you can barely read it then it's more likely that i say something like "ever heard of google" myself. But part of my original post was in part because of the stupid questions that get asked in stupid ways.