Like any other open forum we also have our share of jerks, morons, arrogant wanna'bes, and just plain rude people. The veterans here know who they are and tend to ignore them as they attack the newbies and avail their lack of photographic knowledge or skill upon others here. I for one will apologize for these pathetic clowns but there is nothing we can do to stop them. You need to get thicker skin and do the same. Ignore these kind of remarks and revel in the available knowledge you can garner from those of us that truly are here to help.

Please forgive me in advance, I am sorry if I offend anyone, but Stop saying "Use Search First that question has been answered before". If it has been asked before and you are tired of reading posts about it don't open it just move on. There is no need to chastise someone just let it be. Let it be known this is not aimed at the veteran posters who will generously answer a question and also add, You can find more info by doing a search. That is actually very helpful.

I would like to give you another perspective. There are some of us who are new to photography and we are trying to learn. One of the ways is obviously reading posts. By reading posts we picking up new things that we didn't know before. So to those of you who get annoyed when a question about rule of thirds is asked for the 1000th time, keep in mind there are lots of us out here who couldn't do a search on rule of thirds because we didn't even know what rule of thirds was. You also need to understand that poster who just annoyed you by asking a question that has already been asked 1000 times just helped someone who didn't even know they had a question. I would like to suggest that the next time you see a question or a post about a topic that has come up before, before you take the time and energy to reply "USE SEARCH FIRST" Save your energy and don't waste your time just move on and smile knowing there is a newbie learning something and you just gained more time to go out and shoot. Thank You for reading this. Happy Shooting Hogs

Oh and if you are the poor soul who gets hit with a "Use search first" Feel free go give them the link to this post and tell them to "Search this post" :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Please forgive me in advance, I am sorry if I offend anyone, but Stop saying "Use Search First that question has been answered before". If it has been asked before and you are tired of reading posts about it don't open it just move on. There is no need to chastise someone just let it be. Let it be known this is not aimed at the veteran posters who will generously answer a question and also add, You can find more info by doing a search. That is actually very helpful.

I would like to give you another perspective. There are some of us who are new to photography and we are trying to learn. One of the ways is obviously reading posts. By reading posts we picking up new things that we didn't know before. So to those of you who get annoyed when a question about rule of thirds is asked for the 1000th time, keep in mind there are lots of us out here who couldn't do a search on rule of thirds because we didn't even know what rule of thirds was. You also need to understand that poster who just annoyed you by asking a question that has already been asked 1000 times just helped someone who didn't even know they had a question. I would like to suggest that the next time you see a question or a post about a topic that has come up before, before you take the time and energy to reply "USE SEARCH FIRST" Save your energy and don't waste your time just move on and smile knowing there is a newbie learning something and you just gained more time to go out and shoot. Thank You for reading this. Happy Shooting Hogs

Oh and if you are the poor soul who gets hit with a "Use search first" Feel free go give them the link to this post and tell them to "Search this post" :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Thank you for this thread. As a total 'noob' I am sometimes afraid to post a "stupid" question. I've been on other message boards and gotten that "Do a Search" response and thought "If I new what the hell I was looking for, I would have done that first!" This has NOT happened to me here (yet) I read all of the threads that interest me or that have a title that I feel like I can learn something from. Sometimes I don't understand the answers but I keep reading and researching online and off.