If I had a penny for every time my Google search took me to a result telling somebody to Google it…
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Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoThis is the answer. Theres only so many times someone can ask the same question as the person yesterday and the person the day before that before it gets old.
Its makes you want to scream “please do even the bare minimum amount of research or googling instead of treating the forum/community/whatever like chat gpt!”
it also drowns out more useful questions and PSA/comments people make. Someone who is actually having a niche issue can more readily get help, someone who figured out how to fix it can post about it in the right threads.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The “answers” you get are either someone telling you that question has been asked before, someone using a lot of words while not answering the question, or “oh, I figured it out, never mind.”
howrar@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Not for the questions that get asked repeatedly. You don’t tell people to just look it up unless you’ve already answered that same question at least ten times in the past. If you’ve already answered it multiple times, then the answer is out there.