How Much Time Did You Personally Spend Reading Before Postin

[Rich Frye]

How Much Time Did You Personally Spend Reading Before Posting?

Simple question. Very curious. I'd say I read for about a year.

Rich

[Mywebbedtoes]

A year and a half or more.

[flyangler18]

Hmmm. I lurked on DB for around a year, then finally registered and started posting. We'll call it making it up for lost time.....

[Rich Frye]

OK, so far we have an average of at least a year.

[flyangler18]

OK, so far we have an average of at least a year.

But I wouldn't think that is representative of this board or most forums, mind you. I suspect people come to forums with the intention of getting more or less quick answers, so registrations/same day postings are probably more the norm.

[eLisborg]

a month or so. i had lots of questions!

[Mywebbedtoes]

Originally Posted by flyangler18

I suspect people come to forums with the intention of getting more or less quick answers, so registrations/same day postings are probably more the norm.

Exaclty, and that is why people ask the same questions over and over. They genuinly don't know and that's fine, but they probably didn't do any research either.

[thetattooedone]

I personally exhaust every other avenue of imformation gathering before posting questions.

[Rich Frye]

Originally Posted by Mywebbedtoes

Exaclty, and that is why people ask the same questions over and over. They genuinly don't know and that's fine, but they probably didn't do any research either.

Asking questions is not real research if you ask me. It is a way to get around doing research. For example; How many frogs can I put in a 10gal? How much research was involved and what answer is that person going to get from that question that has been asked at least 1000 times on this forum alone? Instead of asking how about searching for the answer therefore finding the thousands of answers to that one question. Some answers good , some not so good, but at least it was not from that lone person (saint) on a random day who happens not to be driven nuts by the 'how many' question of the day. Reading is research. Asking (posting) is asking. Most often a question that has been asked and answered....too death.

[Mywebbedtoes]

I agree Rich.