Quote Originally Posted by quzah View Post
It's stupid to complain about people posting on other forums. You obviously have the time to be sitting around on your ass reading them, so why are you complaining? Seriously. Why are you complaining?

1. "But I already read a question about EOF today! That's my quota! I do one EOF question per day, and that's it! That guy tricked me into reading his post titled EOF on two forums now, that means I can't read an EOF question tomorrow!"

2. "I only had time to read six posts today! I've used all of my internet up. Now I have to shut my computer off!"

3. "I can only type 500 keystrokes per day. I've used all my keyboard up for the day. Now I have to shut off my computer!"

4. "I'm only allowed to CTRL+C / CTRL+V seven times per day, and now I can't paste my answer from the other forum here!"

5. "Damnit, *I* wanted to be the first guy to answer that question! Now I'm pouty."

Seriously, give me a real reason. No one forces you to go around reading all the C programming forums on the internet, and no one forces you to reply to them all. And what if it really was five different people? Would you still get mad because five different people - say five people from the same class just happen to ask on five different forums? It's not like you really know that those five aren't the same guy. It's not like someone hasn't already answered that question someplace out on the internet. So why even read forums if all you are going to do is .......... about people on other forums?


Quzah.
Psychologically, people don't help others for nothing. They help others to feel good about themselves. It's trading time for feeling good.

If a question has been answered elsewhere, answering it again won't make us feel good, and that's wasted time.