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vatek · December 8th, 2006, 10:29

It's funny, I always thought the purpose of a forum was to be a place where people can share information, not a place where you get called out as an idiot in front of the entire Canadian airsoft community if you didn't search hard enough or read the all-knowing FAQ.

It's not spoonfeeding or whatever the fuck you want to call it. The whole idea behind a message board is to save yourself the trouble of searching through tons of non-useful results and get an answer from someone with firsthand experience.

It never ceases to amaze me how elitist some people on this board are. I go to Arnies and see someone asking about a China-made gun, and they get tons of useful advice. Come here and ask the same thing, and you get fucking lynched.

I'm rapidly getting tired of people asking valid questions being told to search more, or read the FAQ. Maybe a two-year old thread 30 pages back in the archives doesn't have the information the guy wants. I applaud the people who actually post useful information, because they're serving the purpose of this forum.

The FAQ does not say whether or not a gun will break glass. And going to a game is not useful to answer the question unless someone at the game has actually gone out and shot glass. What's he going to do, ask every single person at the game? Or better yet, stand on top of his car and shout "HAS ANYONE HERE EVER SHOT GLASS WITH YOUR GUN AND WHAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE DOING SO?!?". Personally, I learned a shitload more and was able to get a lot more specific questions answered HERE than I ever have at a game. There's people here with a LOT bigger knowledge base than people in Calgary, in my personal experience. I learn new things every day on here from people like Illusion, MadMax, or Gryphon (to name only a few names out of many) who actually post information that's relevant.

"Read the FAQ and go to a game" isn't an answer to everything.

December 8th, 2006, 10:29	#20
vatek Trader rating Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Calgary	It's funny, I always thought the purpose of a forum was to be a place where people can share information, not a place where you get called out as an idiot in front of the entire Canadian airsoft community if you didn't search hard enough or read the all-knowing FAQ. It's not spoonfeeding or whatever the fuck you want to call it. The whole idea behind a message board is to save yourself the trouble of searching through tons of non-useful results and get an answer from someone with firsthand experience. It never ceases to amaze me how elitist some people on this board are. I go to Arnies and see someone asking about a China-made gun, and they get tons of useful advice. Come here and ask the same thing, and you get fucking lynched. I'm rapidly getting tired of people asking valid questions being told to search more, or read the FAQ. Maybe a two-year old thread 30 pages back in the archives doesn't have the information the guy wants. I applaud the people who actually post useful information, because they're serving the purpose of this forum. The FAQ does not say whether or not a gun will break glass. And going to a game is not useful to answer the question unless someone at the game has actually gone out and shot glass. What's he going to do, ask every single person at the game? Or better yet, stand on top of his car and shout "HAS ANYONE HERE EVER SHOT GLASS WITH YOUR GUN AND WHAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE DOING SO?!?". Personally, I learned a shitload more and was able to get a lot more specific questions answered HERE than I ever have at a game. There's people here with a LOT bigger knowledge base than people in Calgary, in my personal experience. I learn new things every day on here from people like Illusion, MadMax, or Gryphon (to name only a few names out of many) who actually post information that's relevant. "Read the FAQ and go to a game" isn't an answer to everything. Last edited by vatek; December 8th, 2006 at 10:36..