Lately I see posts here (mostly from new members) that I find to be extremely elementary, and I just shake my head.
Well it turns out that my attitude has been quite hypocritical. I went back and looked at every thread I've started since joining this site 20 years ago, and wow, I asked some really dumb and elementary questions. Even now, I'm still learning things about thirdgen F-bodies.
So from now on, I'm gonna have a different attitude when I see a question that I think of as elementary, and remember that was me once upon a time...

 

It's not so much whether a question is basic or rudimentary, it's when the person asking is unwilling to even look for the answer in the archives before asking, and demanding an answer, with a sense of entitlement. It doesn't take long to do a search, either here or on Google, or even both, and get a basic education in any thirdgen topic. But some people seem to think that doing that book work is beneath them. When the same question is asked over and over again, the handful of people that actually answer all the tech questions around here, get tired of replying.

 

Wasn't always like this, but now you can just go to Youtube and type in the search bar: How to ....(fill in the blank). Somewhere, someone has already done it, made a video and gives you the socket and wrench sizes. You can also find "easier or quicker" ways to do some things. Any time I encounter something these days that I haven't done before on any vehicle, off to Youtube I go, watch the video a couple of times, then go do it. I still won't re-build a transmission myself though! Nope, not going to happen, not ever.

 

Blame technology for making instant gratification that much quicker, that now even searching for the answer on the net is not quick enough...oh the irony. Just ask and wait for the answer, but the waiting and usually the back and forth that comes with it ends up taking more time than the search would have taken to begin with...more irony.I prefer the ol book search method.

 

This is the most aggrevating part. I am on a few Facebook forums and almost every day it's "what oil pan do I need for my LS swap', and "what wires do I need to keep for my swap".
If they literally just scrolled back a few posts without a search they would find the answer, not even counting an internet search or the search in the top of the FB page