I just wanted to vent for a second without using some poor old noobs post for it. Now I don't claim to be an expert on things, I'm not a developer/programmer, just an average user with an IT systems degree and computer experience in general. Now I just want to ask why it seems like the majority of users around here are complete idiots. I don't mean they are ignorant, (you have to learn sometime) I mean exactly what I said, idiots. I realize there are a lot of lazy people that just don't even try to find info, or are bad at googling or something but when 80% of users say things like, " I followed the guide but haven't finished it, now I'm bricked!". Then the very first suggestion is a NAND backup when the first user just didn't update stuff like they were told to. It just baffles me when common sense is so rare these days that people just automatically assume the worst, without confirmation. You don't have to be an expert in hacking to know outdated programs "may" potentially cause a problem, missing files make things not work, etc. Maybe I'm just crazy but I don't see how it's so hard to troubleshoot simple stuff on your own. Not to mention, if you can't take the time to read and understand what you're doing before you do it, I have no sympathy for you anyway. Granted there are some exceptions, like the Gateway thing on 11.3 that may or may not be rendering systems with A9LH useless (more confirmation needed) but, following the guide to the T and thinking you bricked because you didn't even follow all the steps yet is stupid. It seems like every time the process becomes easier, people become stupider about it. Yes I know I can ignore all the noob posts asking the same exact questions over and over but I really like the temp and helping others troubleshoot real issues. It's just an annoyance when 80% of all threads are the exact same thing saying they bricked when they didn't. I think it would make more sense to have some kind of block for creating new threads until you reach a certain post limit, or it's a new release (I know some devs don't chat in here so have little to no posts). You know, something like if you're under 50 posts or something you can only reply not create new threads. I feel like if you've posted 50 times you might have learned something other than "I don't know".
Tl;Dr I'm tired of 80% of the forum being taken over by idiotic questions that could have been answered with a simple google search while burying useful homebrew releases and hacking progresses.
Tl;Dr I'm tired of 80% of the forum being taken over by idiotic questions that could have been answered with a simple google search while burying useful homebrew releases and hacking progresses.
