Are we here to help people?

[Toni Plutonij]

I help. BTW who voted no?

QUOTE(logical thinker @ Jun 2 2009, 05:28 AM) "No, I'm here for myself." Actually, I like to help others, but most of the people needing help here are noobs and I hate them, so I voted no (and because I am not here mainly to help people). Reasons why I am here.

Here's your answer..

 

[Orc]

No.

 

[Toni Plutonij]

No.

One word post!!

But really Orc, where have you gone lately, and admit it, you were here for the community, maybe not for helping, but surely you're not here just for yourself!

 

[CannonFoddr]

Yeah....here for community..I came here to look for help, and offer myself in any way to help others..
And I'm very satisfied how it turned out!

Exactly the same for me - I wanted help, found it - & now I'm passing it on to others

What does annoy me though is that some newbies (I'm not calling them 'Idiots') don't realise there's a search function, & that they should try that first before asking for help - as it's most probably been asked before

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

I consider all of us one big happy family. Family helps each other when they can.

^
This is the best answer.
Lots of people have been good to me, and answered all my n00bish questions.
In turn, I try to answer as many as I can,
though there's not many of those
But it's the community that keeps me coming back.

 

[weiff]

I find that I help sometimes, most of the time someone beats me to the punch and says exactly the same thing. Saying that, the few times I have asked for help I seem ignored... maybe because I am not as active as some members. Do not get wrong, that is not to say I have never received help, just not on everything I ask.

Also I scour the forums and read conflicting post after conflicting post and usually come to own decision before I ask, if I decide that I still need a little push to make me believe I found the right answer.

There are those on the forums who seem to refuse to think on their own... no research, no info, just spoon feed me the exact answer that I need so that I can never come back again until something else goes wrong. These are the people that annoy the active member and lead to the STFUpperCut that come as replies.

If there was a logical way to force people to search before post for the first time, then I think we would alleviate much of the headache threads and angry posts. Several forums I belong to have imposed limits (mostly to prevent spam and junk post). Perhaps it should be suggested that there is a 5 search limit before a first post/topic. Again this is just a band-aid for an issue that will never really be fixed.

 

[Canonbeat234]

No, I'm here for myself. Ever since my 6G Flash died on me, no one couldn't help me. So I decided to do me and find answers on my own unless I completely don't know what to do i.e. modding a Wii.

 

[mucus]

whump!
bump!

 

[da_head]

i'm just here for the pr0n forums tbh....

 

[Advi]

No, but with a pre-researched actually-worth-asking question i'll help. (after that flood of AK2 n00bs it's gotten betetr)

 

[Satangel]

Ofcourse we are here to help.
No question about that. Sometimes I need help, but I offer way more help to people.

 

[Elritha]

Yes, here to help people within reason. Just don't expect to be hand guided all the time, and use search first.

 

[Raika]

I'm here for myself. I may think about helping people who are active here and post reasonable questions. I don't help those freaking noobs with only 1 or 2 posts and ask a stupid question that has been asked and answered millions of times, or when the answer can be found by searching but they're too lazy.

 

[Raikiri]

i'm mainly here for myself and the information on the site

but whenever i see a question i can answer and someone hasnt already beaten me to it i help them =)

 

[jan777]

Help them use google, if thats what you mean

 

[Rock Raiyu]

I was here for the help at first but over the 2 years I've been here I've gone from the person being help to the person who is giving help if you know what I mean.

I consider all of us one big happy family. Family helps each other when they can.

And I think the same way. One big GBATemp Family.

 

[Minox]

No, I'm not here to help people. It's mostly for my own needs although helping people is something that comes as a side-effect from being here.

 

[elixirdream]

i am here to kill my time

if someone need help and i have the answer why not share the wealth

 

[mewcuss]

I'm here for myself! But......
If I can help anyone with their problems then I will try(like a lot of people in this community).
I also try to help myself by goolgling and finding things out but when I have to sift through ten different websites which all have articles similar to this: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=84991 then surely its easier to ask?
Also I don't mind people making a thread to ask a question it's the multiple flaming comments left behind it that really pisses me off.
Surely if people are that bothered about a repeated question (CORE, Slot 1 GBA games,R4,etc) then they should just ignore the thread and let it fall rather than bumping the topic by leaving replys that just flame the said question.

 

[Psyfira]

i am here to kill my time

if someone need help and i have the answer why not share the wealth

I think that's the best answer I've seen on here. I'm not here just to help people, but I'll answer something if I can or if it interests me enough to look for the answer. Sometimes I'll even google a question I know nothing about because I like a challenge

And Google likes me.

I can understand the "use the damn search function!" ethic though; people hate repeating themselves, and they shouldn't have to, but sometimes these replies would be more useful if people threw in a keyword or two to point the searcher in the right direction. I remember seeing someone asking how to do something or other on the Wii once and it turned into a bloodbath, all he would've needed was the name of the program he needed to get it too turn up in search rather than 3 pages of debating whether he'd bothered to search or not (which he had, unsuccessfully).