A forum very quickly loses the ability to help people that actually NEED help, when half the posts are questions and answers that are being repeated on an almost daily basis.

I have literally seen people make maybe five posts between the answer to a question, and someone else asking the same thing. If you can't read at least 2 pages at the beginning and the end, you don't deserve help. If there's something serious and lives or great amounts of suffering is at stake, the right thing to do is indeed to answer. Hell ,even if it's some urgent problem like "help I f'ed up my hildon.menu and now I can't open any apps" gets answered regularly, shortly after the question appears.

That's like saying if you're excited about buying something, would you read the laws on whether it's legal to buy it, or pester people on the street about the details. And that something is a firearm. In most countries, as I understand it, firearms are outright illegal for civilians, or tightly tightly regulated. Asking someone if it's legal to buy it or how to get the permits will probably just result in them *****ily telling you 'no it's not legal, f*k off'. In something like the United States, where in most states you can get a permit, and not too difficultly, some random person excited about getting a gun who's not willing to educate themselves on the subject, well, that's an f'ing warning sign in itself.

But seriously, yes, I do think it's realistic to ask for the skimming of at least a hundred posts. Most of them are like two sentences long, and obviously don't have any technical answers.

Also, this thread would be around 40 pages, it's just the last 30 or so have mostly been people asking the same f'ing thing, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...

Q. "Hey wre can i get neopwn plz?" A. "It's not legally released yet, but there's leaked versions if you want to look on (link)" Q. "hey guys is there injections wifi working yet" A. "Yes, it's been confirmed as working by several people" Q. "hey I'd like to try neopwn where's the download link? Has it ben released yet? oh and is injection working?"

There's a difference between help and spoon feeding. And even though I always say err on the side of benefit of the doubt and helping, that was very much asking to be spoon fed.