Lights

Hey, here's a man telling me what to do with my time, just what I need. We can agree to differ on whether we try to encourage use of the search function, but kindly get out of my face with your advice on how I should spend my time.

"Just do something different with your time" = suggestion.

Hold on. I don't think I flamed him at all; I suggested that getting arsey, saying something like "History is boring" or whatever wasn't the best way to get people to help him. As Hippy points out if every time someone wants to know about lights they start a thread because they can't be bothered to do any research then the next person who wants to know about lights has a much harder time if they do do research because there are so many duplicate threads to read through. That is the point of trying to discourage people from starting new threads on old topics.
There may well have been plenty to say and new stuff to learn but it could have been tacked on to the end of an existing thread where it would be easier for the next person to find. I think Velocio should merge these threads though it's not really fair that he has to do extra work because someone has been to lazy to UTS. Trying to get people to use an ever growing forum in the most efficient way is not whining.
And you can't complain that some members are instructing other members how to behave when that is exactly what you are doing yourself.

Far too much discussion on this already for me, and you appear to have missed the bracketed disclaimer!

distilled: people are being unnecessarily rude to new members and getting overly upset about their perceived version of how the forum should operate.....

this is my perception and my opinion only, Personally I don't understand the animosity or what drives people to write 211 words on the subject....where's that field?