[damien c]

Originally Posted by Chris

It’s not a problem restricted to Linux communities. It’s maybe a tad less visible these days because the heyday of the bulletin board is behind us, but 25-30 years ago there were boards for any number of special interests and pretty much any one of them could have a subset of members who were anal beyond all reason.

I hung around a forum for people trying to run their cars on vegetable oil for a while about 20 years ago and it was unbelievable, newcomers coming in and asking questions and being piled on for being n00bs and told to ‘do their research’, which is literally what anyone who googles, finds a forum and then joins up to ask an expert is doing. We weren’t immune from it here either, we always had the ones who’d go and set up a ‘let me google that for you’ link to post, rather than the simple one or two line answer that would have been helpful.

I can remember some of the places like that, they were annoying as all hell.

I also remember the whole "Let me google that for you" and I know I was guilty of it at times, but mainly when the person was being very arrogant etc.