- Oct 24, 2017
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This thread is almost 850 pages of posts since Holiday island was first released. Conservatively I would say 300+ pages are filled with the same question(s). In my opinion, that eliminates your reasoning that ignoring said posts will nudge the poster(s) to searching for themselves. Face it, people are lazy and refuse to use the available tools, such as Guides, FAQ's, 'Search', etc. when they play the game. Pick almost any game on F95Zone and the biggest complaint in that game's thread will be people continuing to ask the same questions over and over again.There is always a bone of contention when people ask questions... and in my opinion it is so easily solved, but some people that rant on about it need to see it "sometimes" from the other searchers perspective.
1, If a thread is IMHO over 100 pages and has a lot of changes / content, it really can take ages finding exactly what you are after, I personally see no harm in asking.
2, If a person doesnt want to help a person find something, dont reply to it. Simply ranting on to the user to use the search doesnt help you look any smarter I can assure you. This goes both ways as well, if a person is asking for something truely obvious, leave them alone for a while and they soon will try and find it themselves. Ranting to get people to use the search just agrivates everyone.
Worse is that often an answer is followed by a complaint that their questioned wasn't answered fast enough or completely enough. You don't see 'no harm in asking'? I suggest you spend a day helping others to play the game and try and answer all the questions. If you still feel the same way, I'll gladly tip my hat to you. Then, instead of ranting that the search function be used, I'll direct them to message you directly.