Originally Posted by
tcook052
You mean I would get a 'welcome' if I ventured into the NZ forum for the first time?
Yes you would, as I stated in an earlier post, if the forum Ambassador recognized that you were new to the forum. Veterans in one forum can be wide-eyed rank amateur newbies in a new, complex and busy forum.
Originally Posted by
tcook052
Sorry but this makes little sense to me as non-newbies should know enough from their time on FT to read the stickies and forum FAQ which most feature and can manage FT search that newbie type questions should be almost eliminated. Now sheer laziness can't be encouraged and veterans who are too lazy to search or make any attempt to find the answer to their question IMHO should receive a curt reply from forum regulars, but that's just MHO.
I hope to see the day on FlyerTalk when there is no such thing as a dumb question from a newbie or veteran alike.
Or where a member accuses another member of being lazy because they don't want to spend a half-hour searching for the answer to a question that a forum regular could, politely, answer for them in 5 seconds. And which I've done countless times over the last eight years.
And somehow I've managed to never suggest someone search for their answer. In the time it would take me to post that "snarky" reply, I could give the answer requested, make the member happy and help keep the forum a warm, welcoming place. But maybe that's just me.
If you see some of the earlier posts in this thread, we are looking for personality types that will answer the same tired, old question for the 10,000th time with as much tact and goodwill as the first time they answered it. And there are folks out there that'll do this.