Is it wrong to ask someone to search before posting?

[Former Member]

Please see this thread [Project system material |/thread/1989630 [original link is broken]; I had asked the user to search in internet and forum and all I get is an insulting reply

 please shut and do your own things 

Is it really an offense to tell someone to search the forum or in google ?

[Former Member]

I too ask members for searching the forum or blogs or articles or wiki but , havent had such sort of arrogant and un-acceptable reply. Rather members take it positively and respect the rules of the forum " Search the forum before posting ".

I feel majority of the moderators would appreciate that It is rather right thing to do , so that everyone's time is utilized properly .

just don't concentrate on the replies as Julius has already locked the thread . Report it as abuse so that necessary actions can be taken against such unprofessional behavior and approach .

Cheers ,

Dewang

[Former Member]

Thanks everyone for your views. I feel that most of the times people get offended when you say read SAP Help or search forum, All they want is immediate reply/solution to their problem. I really dont understand what is there to get offended, there are abundant SAP knowledge availabe in SDN,most of them really dont explore this site much . But there are few people who seriously follow our words and do the searching, this thread is an example [new layout in CJR2 (user defined layout)|/message/9857375#9857375 [original link is broken]] , this user took the advice and he seriously did some searching , reading and bit of practice from his own side and the result is he succeeded without any further help. I was really happy to see when he said that he solved his problem on his own. That is the kind of spirit we should have.

[ThomasZloch]

I dare say that most regular contributors, moderators and admins share your views, just don't take those things personal. There is some gray area in telling apart the innocent newbie from the intentional troll. I think even newbies to SAP stuff can be expected not to be newbies when it comes to phrasing a proper, detailed and polite question or searching for relevant information first, although they will not dig up as much as experts who just know the keywords to use.

It is a matter of laziness, cockiness and some other -nesses. When I see these in a post -> thread locked or moved to T&P.

Of course I phrase the reason for action more politely, or else we will have people starting to blog about how they were being oppressed on SCN

Thomas