Quote from: bobbystahr on December 22, 2014, 12:41:35 PM
This isn't directed to anyone in particular but why on earth don't people just open stuff up and try it before they ask questions. In the past short while I've seen questions asked that I didn't know the answer to so I opened up whatever was asked about and often it was self explanatory and I had no need to follow the thread; but if it confused me I either just followed/lurked till I understood, or then, if it was a deeper confusion I'd pose a query. Was I like that at the start...so long now I forget.
Probably not needed to be posted, at all.
The whole point of a forum is its not a damn wiki, dude. We're not to look for past posts, we're here TOO post. Especially when it comes up mid-topic from
someone else.
I've noticed the old users here are pretty much nothing but trolls if not helpful in some area, but usually just sighting links and not imputing any useful information, making yourselves look like assholes, no offense. Not to mention the search feature here does not use Regex and only matches EXACT words making searches bring up no topics more then 80% of the time. Most topics don't contain any information, but posts to other topics, which end up having broken links, or thousands of posts to read through,
instead of re-answering the question so it can be found in multiple formats and IS easy to find for people that do search. Now that's how a forum is filled with relevant and helpful information. This forum is hard to search, let alone get through peoples discussions to find the info they need when someone links them. Boy, if you all ran a school. Lol It'd go bankrupt and probably undergo a class action lawsuit.
If you have a issue with it, I'd suggest spending your time on the Wiki and making a solid contribution to it's information like Planetside wants, probably because most users get some assaine responses from senior users which shut down more then half this forums population as looking through most topics self-evidently shows.
You literally cannot browse any topics without Planetside Forums senior members making themselves, and the community out to be assholes to new users. Especially when less then 10% of the worlds population knows how to function a forum when looking for information on Google (let alone know how to function google)You need to understand every forum is different, every website is different, and most the time people are confused when visiting a website, not automatically familiar. Being a web developer for over 14+ years I am very avid in user relations, and can spot a bad, and dying community from miles away. This community is only alive by it's senior members, who almost religiously make it a point to make new users uncomfortable.