[eluser]jdfwarrior[/eluser]
I think they should be thrown into a pool of sharks with frickin laser beams and IF they make it out alive, then they can post. JK, obviously.
I agree with some of the other replies here that helping a noob is good and having a large community and all is as well. However, as mentioned in my previous post, I like helping people, but I get tired of people who don't try to help themselves. I get tired of the people who don't even make an attempt to find the answer before the post a question. If your trying.. if you've tried other code and just having problems and can't figure it out, or looking for ideas on something, looking for advice, then fine, I have no problem helping people. I don't like it when people come in though, and say "hey how do I do X?". They don't give any info on, "I've tried this and this but it doesnt work.." or "I've search here and her and read this but can't seem to figure it out". It shows that they are putting forth no effort to try to find a solution themselves. They are looking for someone to lay it out in front of them. Therefore they don't LEARN what was wrong, and don't gain any experience from it except, "Hey I can go ask any stupid question and not even try to find it and they will help"
Someone said, cant remember who, that stupid questions and such are ignored and get criticized around here. Not really. CI forums is such a good community that most of the time people will just answer to do it. That has its good and bad points. If others would force them to search or at least attempt to check the user guide first, it would hopefully get them out of the habit of coming in and just asking stupid questions.
I do think we need sticky threads.. or.. sections/topics marked as, "For Beginners" to have all the beginner level stuff archived there instead of having the SAME thing posted every day.
Sorry for the long rant. Just my opinion..
