You'll learn more if you do the research

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Am I becoming intolerant in my old age or are more and more members of this forum simply being lazy about doing their own research?

If you want to know if Amazon allows it's affiliates to do something, why don't you ask them yourself? Or review their terms of service for affiliates, or send them a support question?

If you want to know how much hosting at HostGator costs, why not do a little research on your own?

If you want to find a free WordPress theme for a hamster web site, why don't you use the search engines and find one for yourself?

It seems to me that many people lately (more than I remember from years ago) are starting threads asking questions that they could easily find answers to if they would just spend a few minutes looking online.

Now if you are really stuck and have tried hard to find an answer but can't, then by all means ask away. Or if you are asking for member's opinions based on their experience, that's fine. That's not what I'm talking about.

If you haven't lifted a finger yet to do your own research, IMO you are wasting the time of members here.

Don't say "just ignore my post if you don't want to help me." Or "it's not hurting anyone."

I for one, think this forum would be much better off if all such threads were never posted in the first place. There are so many pointless threads one has to wade through when searching on a specific topic - it takes forever these days.

Steve
#main internet marketing discussion forum #learn #research
  • I quite agree.

    There's a terribly good search engine called, er, let me think now, oh yes! - Google. And on it you can find out about almost anything you could think of, and plenty you couldn't.

    And if you want to find the best ways in which you can access information using Google, then just search on it for Google help, or go to support.google.com, or search on YouTube for "how to use google", where there is at the top of the listings a 5 year old video that has received over 5 million views.

    I hope this helps to reduce the number of threads here that are so unnecessary.

    Philip Gegan
  • I think the great divide happens when there are individuals who have dove into IM or other Business but don't have the foundation skills to support it. So they find themselves understanding the concept but not the details.

    I'll admit I have taken on multi-thousand dollar projects in particular markets, and found myself googling dumb questions late at night because I am just at the point of stuck on something. Usually something minor too.

    With that being said, I can see why a lot of basic questions do pop up but I guess in the end all that can be said is if they could find that key one their own they would. Posting in a forum can actually be a pain sometimes when you know what you are asking is small and probably easily worked out. But we get stuck, it happens.


















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    • Some of the really, really basic questions aren't because someone is stuck. They're posted to generate eyeballs on a sig offer. They don't care if you clicked the thread to flame them or help them, as long as you keep bumping that thread back to the top of page one.

      Here's an idea...

      Rather than regurgitate the same answer that's been given a dozen times to get your own sig in there, just thank the first instance of the answer you would have given. Let the thread sink on its own.

      Have a question about another site's terms, pricing, etc.? I have an idea - it's a crazy longshot, but it just might work. ASK THEM! That's what they are paying a support staff for. Just because you don't get your answer in a few seconds doesn't mean run over hear and post your support question, claiming that you asked and never got an answer.

      Guess those crabby flakes are kicking in again...
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  • I like research a lot!
  • People who post newb questions, and those who rant about it.

    Whats the difference?
  • Ambitious newbies do research on their own. Lazy newbies ask the simple questions on the forum. Both kind of newbies are born everyday. Just the nature of the business - it wont be stopped.
  • I for one would rather draw attention to my signature by having a GREAT post rather than a NOOB post being bumped all of the time.

    I think that is the concept WF is going for in the first place.

    The higher quality the content, the better the traffic, reputation, and user experience for the contributors.

    I'm here to contribute on what I DO know (eBay and teaching people that skill),
    Internet marketing and website construction,
    And to learn what I don't (Expand my product on CPA networks - still way in the dark about that)
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  • I think they know the answers. They just start a thread either for fun or to see what others say or they are bored so they need some talking or they try to know some new out of the world thing...

    sorry I am not harsh...just saying
  • Why don't you Google that?

    George Wright
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    • Hi,

      I'm sure a lot of it is due to sig file exposure, but if you're not sure and it's the type of question where the asker will benefit from being encouraged to research it themselves, utilise lmgtfy.com, like this -

      Their question - What is an affiliate marketer?

      Your answer - THIS might help you (in more ways than one)

      Tough love works.

      Hi RobertoM,

      I don't like dictators either, almost as much as I dislike those who twist the obvious truth in order to arrive at a fallacious conclusion designed to enforce their wishes through guilt implication, emotional blackmail or political correctness.

      The wishes expressed in this thread clearly have nothing to do with censorship or dictatorship and you're not helping or defending newbies with your distortion.

      You'll notice the OP said -

      He's appealing to the people who create those threads to think about taking a different course of action for logical reasons. He's not suggesting they are silenced, censored or banned.

      Also, you'll notice my motto is 'dare to be different' but I wouldn't choose to defy convention by using unnecessarily disruptive communication methods to try and get my point noticed because it weakens my argument and is likely to lead people to ignore my words. I'm talking about kind of .

      It's ultimately self-defeating because it weakens your message and gives off the wrong signals.
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    • Exactly. Why not just ask Google instead of having a discussion about it? LOL
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    You'll learn more if you do the research

    Am I becoming intolerant in my old age or are more and more members of this forum simply being lazy about doing their own research? If you want to know if Amazon allows it's affiliates to do something, why don't you ask them yourself? Or review their terms of service for affiliates, or send them a support question?