Mild rant- but when someone posts a serious question in GQ, it would be polite to wait until at least one person has posted with a helpful/right answer before everyone jumps in with lame jokes.
Some dudes asked a question, and no less than 4 posters responded with silly/joke answers first.
Not that a Joke answer is nessesarily wrong for GQ, but can you imagine the annoyance if you are waiting for a real answer, and get only joke after joke? :mad:
In their slight defence they do bump the thread for legitimate experts to notice.
The jokes harm nothing.
Chill out, Garth. Your pills?
Boy, the nerve of some people!
I really can’t stand it when people make up their own etiquette rules and then are shocked that other people don’t abide by them.
Au contraire, premature jokes increase the amount of fuckwitted crap that must be scanned in order to determine if anyone has supplied an adequate answer.
It takes about 1.8 seconds to mousewheel or scroll to what is clearly the legit answer. If it takes longer it’s a difficult question and therefore benefits even more for the bump.
The thread in question wasn’t in need of bumpage. 6 minutess elapsed from the OP to the first joke. Tomndebb delivered an answer within 30 minutes. Bumping with a joke is at times a noble undertaking, this wasn’t one of those times.
Well… no, actually, I can’t. Why would that be annoying, exactly? Better joke answers than no answers at all, which is what I’d get if everyone waited for the real answer to show up. Which might never happen, as my thread might have dropped off the front page from lack of responses because the one guy on the boards who has the info I want happens to work the swing-shift and doesn’t get online until 5:00 AM.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
Incidentally, you do know that there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that taste just as good as the real thing, right?
I’d just like to point out that in a google search on “clampers”, the first three hits were answers to his question…
My post was the fourth. My bad. 
The thread, true enough, required no bump. It did, however, suffer from a lack of levity. I helped repair that deficit.
I disagree. Whenever I post a thread to GQ, I’m looking for an answer to my question, not a joke, and it annoys me to get an email and see the header, expecting an answer to my question, and it’s an unfunny joke.
You made a pun. How clever.
I’d rather have no answers and have to bump it myself than have my inbox filled with notifications that’re almost completely unrelated to what I asked.
Perfectly understandable, Aesiron, but frequently there are questions or posters coughSurrealcough . . . coughetalcough that simply scream for a humorous retort.
A hard and fast rule here would deprive either side of some value.
In those cases, I agree. Some OPs do seem to exist only to be mocked.
Oooooh. I have been, indirectly, pitted. DrDeth is correct. There is no place for humour in GQ. So, adam yax go fuck myself.
Careful adam, you’ll go blind. Just sayin’.
Ya get what you pay for, Aes.
Uh, wait, now that we are paying that doesn’t work as well. How about, you’re availaing yourself of a resource which is somewhat unique in that we’re all paying to answer your questions. The goofing around makes the place attractive to the providers of answers, so it’s a cost you shouldn’t begrudge.
–Cliffy
Well, actually, I conned **Berkut **into paying for my subscription so, in my case at least, that still applies.
I, for one, have been sharply rebuked in the past for introducing a note of levity into someone’s GQ thread. Now I usually wait until a legitimate answer (assuming there is one and that the thread is not simply misplaced) has been provided. Then I let loose with both barrels.
Originally Posted by Squink:
“fuckwitted crap”
band name?
Cuts both ways, compadre. What if you’re not on the receiving end of all this humorous largesse? What if your important, burning question gets summarily punted right down the first page because other threads keep getting bumped by jokes?
Don’t get me wrong. I love jokes. But not everybody here is so nimble with the straight lines. And let’s face it, a lot of people posting in GQ might actually be looking for an answer, not just the <waves to Miller> kind of thread cameo.
On the other hand, it is pretty fun to make someone laugh in GQ. Kind of like copping a feel in church.
I guess I’d appreciate some middle ground. I wish people would be a little more considerate in GQ. It’s the heart of this place, after all, and it’s commonly the conduit for new members. I’d love it if we could leave that one forum just a little bit cleaner than we found it.