I was going to list a bunch of examples, but…
I’m too tired after reading all of the inane threads about what to feed spiders that have already been released… or whether Coca-Cola is better for you than Pepsi or water, or what’s the difference between ‘and’ and ‘but’, or, 'why are condoms shaped like penises, or, what happens in my homework assignment when the cell phone gets destroyed by a bomb?
Are you people really that lazy?
Will a $5 subscription fee make you go away?
There’s no factual answer to this question.
How do you feel about folks who post in the wrong forum?
Why not? Because I can’t Google it?
Asking a specific question on a MB gives you a direct, isolated answer, often with helpfull additional information. Using a search engine gives you a mass off irrelevant information which you have to search through to find the answer to your question. I know which I prefer.
(if the question is boring and likely to have come up countless times then I will use google. If the question is interesting and may give someone pleasure to answer it. I will ask here)
Ah! Another question with a factual answer!
I feel like this…
:mad:
However, that was not the point.
Please tell me why so many people who post to this board don’t use Google first, since that’s where the answers to most of their questions come from. It’s a factual question, because the guilty people are out there… lurking… waiting for someone else to fess up first.
Maybe they don’t think of it. Maybe they’re searching and not coming up with anything. Maybe they’ve got a question that could have a bunch of factual answers. Maybe it’s nicer to get the answer from a real live person occasionally.
Or maybe they really are inferior. :rolleyes:
This belongs in the Pit, and if you’re so gung-ho about board etiquette, you should have been the first to see that.
More or less. Perhaps I should elaborate: there is a factual answer to your question (that is, the question that is in your title, ignoring the rant that constitutes most of your OP), but it’s practically unknowable. Each person who posts a question to GQ rather than using a search engine may have his own reason. Obviously not all of these can be listed, but someone could poll each person who posts a question that could be answered with a search engine (and even here you’ll get disagreement about what qualifies) over some time period, say a week, and post a summary. Since clearly no one has ever done that, or will ever do it, there’s no factual answer to your question.
Don’t preach to me, you newbie.
There are factual answers to the following questions, and the answerers are out there…
Are you people really that lazy?
Will a $5 subscription fee make you go away?
Fine.
No.
No.
There’s your factual answers.
That was low. pasunejen’s reply was right and did not deserve this.
Thank you.
:eek:
This only your opinion and, in my opinion, this OP doesn’t belong in GQ. Maybe some don’t want to take the effort to answer (post) to a simple thread using a search engine. This doesn’t mean they don’t know how. You used “post” vs “new thread” … big difference.
Check the date of my membership. I’ve been around exactly as long as you; I just haven’t posted much up to this point.
As to your question, if you’re going to insist on an answer: whether or not something can be adequately answered via web search is, as the other posters have said, a highly subjective matter. You’ll never find complete agreement on what constitutes an acceptable GQ OP–even after the purge you seem to hope the switch to subscription will entail.
Yeah?
So turn on your sarcasm meter. (I already know how to read.)
Google is pretty useless for finding specific information unless you already have some idea of what you should be looking for. If you have no idea what the answer would be, asking here is alot more efficient. For every correct answer google will give you, there might be a crackpot silly answer out there as well. There are people here who are experts in their feilds who can answer a specific question without making you run the gauntlet of random information.
This is pretty obvious to me.
There is no factual answer to the OP, so I’m closing this.
If you want to rant open a Pit thread. If you want a poll, open a thread in IMHO that doesn’t sound like a rant.
DrMatrix - GQ Moderator