# Is LMGTFY unacceptable snark? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 8, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-lmgtfy-unacceptable-snark/520509 "2009-12-08T21:10:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-lmgtfy-unacceptable-snark/520509/3 "2009-12-08T22:32:11Z")
Let’s put it this way. It’s not the sort of thing that would garner a official warning (unless someone started doing it persistently), but it’s also not something we wish to encourage. From the [General Questions Rules](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=466202): > [@](#): > > 1. Please take some time to consider if your proposed thread is really a General Question; General Questions is for factual questions only… Perhaps more importantly, many queries can be solved with a simple web search. Please give your favorite search engine a shot if you can before starting a thread. **By the same token, we aren’t interested in hearing about how stupid the question was because a search could have answered the question. Nor are we interested in hearing how simple it was for another poster to find the answer in a search engine. If it’s that simple to find the answer, go ahead and post the answer.** We prefer that posters not clutter up GQ with very simple and easily researched questions (e.g., What’s the capital of North Dakota?). On the other hand, if you have done some research and you have some additional questions, that’s fine. Personally, I am unlikely to take action unless a poster has made a habit of opening such threads. ETA: A certain degree of snark is acceptable in GQ. Where it becomes a problem is when people start to take offense and a fight begins to break out. If that looks to be a possibility, I may say something to get the thread back on track. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-lmgtfy-unacceptable-snark/520509)._