Posted by Rocket2600 on February 20, 2002 at 15:37:29:
In Reply to: Re: Dear Johnny-Come-Lately... posted by Brett on February 20, 2002 at 15:12:17:
Bren was joking in half that message while being serious also. Some 'new' people are on the lasy side and instead of doing a little research they will ask 50 times "What is the best front-end?" All they have to do is download and try them out. You could take a good hour and try around 10 of them instead of posting that question and getting 10 different answers. Point is, if you're coming into this hobby be prepared to invest a little time. Once you've done that and are stuck with something, by all means post on the board. Drop in the chatroom in the later evening also. Lots of 'regulars' pop in there and have lots of great info on this stuff. Every once in awhile things get a little OT (off topic) but most times it's a great chacne to share info. One word of warning about the chat for 'new' people. Keep the laguage lite. An occasional 'damn' or so will get by (ie: "damn that was a cool find!! ;-)", but f*** this and f*** that is not accptable by any means. Just my $0.02 on the subject. Just have fun, after all that is what this hobby is all about!
Game On!
~Rocket2600
: I haven't been on here too long, and wade around on search engines or whatever and try to leave bothering people as a last resort, but I think you're being a bit harsh. Someone posting a 'dumb' question or whatever isn't dumb to them cos they don't know the answer. In my experience of message boards, the only people worse than the 'dmb newbie' is the elitist who gets wound up by them so calm down, you'll give yourself an ulcer.