I'm all for the suggestions of adding restrictions to new and/or annoying members. I like to help people (if I can), but there are only so many times I can answer the same question before that question starts to tick me off. A lot of the time, I end up seeing threads with titles like "HALP!" and inside it's someone asking the most common and/or stupid question, and because of that I end up thinking something along the lines of "Freaking noobs..." (but less PG). All the shitposting around here has made me jaded, and less likely to contribute to the site.
Maybe we could add a new feature for new (or all) accounts. When you just made your account and you try to start a new thread, a popup appears saying "Is this a question? If so, please Google it beforehand" and it has a Google search bar that they can type into that will then open into a new tab. Underneath that is a search bar for this site if the Google search proved to be ineffective.
I don't remember what I had to agree to before signing up for this site, but we could also add a new rule: if you ask a question that has already been recently asked, you get warned. People will start getting their act together rather quickly if that were to happen.
Maybe we could add a new feature for new (or all) accounts. When you just made your account and you try to start a new thread, a popup appears saying "Is this a question? If so, please Google it beforehand" and it has a Google search bar that they can type into that will then open into a new tab. Underneath that is a search bar for this site if the Google search proved to be ineffective.
I don't remember what I had to agree to before signing up for this site, but we could also add a new rule: if you ask a question that has already been recently asked, you get warned. People will start getting their act together rather quickly if that were to happen.