If you haven't got anything nice to say don't say anything!

that's the thing, though.. you make it sound like 'if you're not in to the pisstaking/etc, then you don't belong on the forum'. that's not right.

it makes the place less open, imo.

the reason this forum is so open is that Velocio allows people to post anything and everything they want, within ethical and moral acceptability.
It's a reflection of a 'real' community which exists, in equal amounts on and off of the internet.

What makes this forum different is if people in real life asked me the same questions again and again for which the answers already lies close at hand i.e UTFS, it would piss me off something rotten, and i would show it. This forum is no different.

Answering every noobs question at a whim, the forum would soon clog up with all sorts of inane questions, as it would perpetuate itself. Therfore doing what the form does best, telling people to UTFS is a good thing. Self regulating spamm bot. thats what it is. and it works just fine.