secound rant of the week :)
MrDG guess your right, just cant keep my mouth shut.
this week there are several newbs on the site, which is to be expected, as things get more and more crowded on the street and in the ally ways.
but several of them want the forum members to hold their hands through the most elemental steps, asking questions my 10 year old daughter could figgure out or figgure out how to find the answer too with all the info available here.
is it just me, am I really that much of an old cermudgen and sour puss. It has cost most of us thousands of dollars, not to mention thousands of hours to learn what we know and freely share with searious scrappers along with wanabe scrappers. I dont have a problem with that, much of what little I know I learned here,but, there has to be a line some where.
we have every one here fron old pfarts like me who have spent years learning what little we know. We have young 20 year olds who will soon be millionares through study research amd hard work.
then we have those who want a complete how to emailed to them through asking elimentry questions here.
scrapping is a dangerous business, Im just not sure we are doing some of these people a favor by answering elemental questions they have neither the time or common sence to figgure out. technical questions are one thing but some one who refuses to use the search engine period, some one asks where can I find huge bundles of copper, Is a BMW worth $100, are we realy helping these people or are we perhaps endangering their lives by answering the elimentry questions with out complete detailed instructions. for example if one dosent know that a beamer is worth at least 4 or 500 (c0mplete) then does he have enough common sence to know not to set it on cement blocks to work under it?
I voted for the beginners thread but when I did I knew it was probably an excorsise in futility. just my .02.
