All You Should Read

“Newb” (or “n00b”, if you’re l33+) never was, and never will be, a term of endearment.

I firmly believe that people should not be allowed on the internet - nay, behind a keyboard - before they have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they know what they’re getting themselves into.

I’m beginning to lose my interest. It’s fun, climbing up the level ladder at breakneck speed…

… but some of the people there are such pathetic losers. There’s this one guy - who calls himself a web designer - that answers a question, gives everyone else the thumbs down - not because their answers are wrong, mind, but to make himself look good - then logs in with another account, gives every one else another thumbs down, and himself a thumbs up. Bingo!

The whole thing is a race to get as many points as possible - never mind about just giving people information, absolutely never mind acknowledging other people may give good information, too…

His answers aren’t bad… but his attitude is one of a first-grader. A retarded bully first-grader. And his website, oh my god, his site… animated GIFs all over the place. A yellow background. With… with horizontal lines, like a college binder. Sorry, but I can’t respect the petty if-I-make-everybody-look-bad-it-makes-me-look-good behavior. And there’s plenty of ‘em like that.

Yeah… like with a lot of other things in life, Yahoo! isn’t capable of keeping me interested. The Laissez-faire attitude of the actual staff regarding spam reporting; the trolling; the adults acting like kids with a double-bottomed shopping bag in a candy store…

Time to move on, I think.

[Thanks for the spelling correction, Martin! Je ne parlez pas Français cela bien; mes degrés dans l'école secondaire étaient assez mauvais. Long live Freetranslation.com...]

Going through the questions and answers on Yahoo Answers, that’s the only conclusion I can draw.

Give a perfectly valid answer to a question and people give you the thumbs down because it doesn’t appeal to their “I don’t want knowledge, I just want do do this” mentality.

Teach a man how to fish… *sigh*