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Originally Posted by AngryAlpaca
One major problem with the "post a response, not a link" method is that no one will explain something as much in a post as in a guide that they wrote.
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Strawman - Thats a perspective no one supported.
Those of us who think newbs should be helped and not just told to search, think that a quote/link should be presented in combination with telling them something along the lines of - "they don't have to wait for answers when they search for it themselves".
Atleast I didn't see anywhere that someone posted saying that people should fully respond to repetitive/n00b posts, and I wanted to make it clear that what you stated appears as though it is a misrepresentation of points being discussed. No one said the wheel should be reinvented - what it boiled down to was positively reinforcing members to do the work themselves, or negatively reinforcing members to do the work themselves.
OCF prefers the positive reinforcement route. ProC prefers the negative reinforcement route.