This mainly relates to tech communities, but certainly applies elsewhere. I’m just so sick of seeing a constant flood of basic questions being posted that would’ve been better off as a search query.
Instead of communities being a wealth of discussion and a place to learn/exchange knowledge and ideas, it feels like most have about 10-20% solid content at best, and 80-90% useless noise: “How do I X?”, “What Linux Distro should I use?”, “What does Y mean?”
Like, I’m all for asking questions, but I prefer to help those who help themselves. Is this all the result of iPad kid syndrome or something?
If you’re willing to take the time to post a simple question that 50 other people have already asked within the last week instead of taking 5 seconds to search for an answer (that’ll probably be the first result on any search engine), your thought process makes no sense to me and I can’t see you as anything other than a complete nuisance to the community/fediverse.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
You know, this exact same complaint has been repeated, near verbatim, for as long as the internet has existed.
Post a question on a dial up BBS? “Just search!”
Post a question on Usenet? “Just search!”
Post a question on a forum? “Just search!”
Post a question on Discord? “Just search!”
Post a question on Lemmy? “Just search!”
Etc. I don’t think it’ll ever change.
True. There seems to be a large portion of the Lemmy user base that are either new to discussions, or have an extremely limited and narrow experience interacting online and expect everything to be like what they’ve seen before.