Originally Posted by
Happy
People should start doing some work themselves so they would not cluster a thread with same questions that the answers are readily found.
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Have some common sense, use some brain, instead of just asking questions and wanting quick answers without putting in any efforts.
This.
Nobody should have a problem with newcomers--but everybody should have an issue with lazy people (new or old) who parachute into a thread to ask a question that has been answered in an obvious place (wiki or last page or two of posts). You wouldn't put up with some clueless twit at a cocktail party who barges into a conversation without getting a feel for the discussion & tries to derail it, so why put up with equally loutish behavior online?
These people, and the posters who would excuse them, are the reason it's useful to have an Ignore List.