I'm afraid it is an attitude that prevails on this forum. There's an awful lot of aggression towards people asking supposedly simple questions, and people thinking that search function is always necessarily going to reveal the answer. The reality is that these 'simple' questions are not simple for people who don't follow the scene daily, and finding the exact answer you need can be hard given the sheer amount of threads here and amount of pages they contain.
The irony is that the people berating those who ask questions end up 'wasting' more forum space with their overly-critical posts than the person who asked the question in the first place.