Questions that are more appropriate as websearches. No need to ask here to learn the capital city of Lithuania or the law on jaywalking in OP’s home town.
I usually tag the users most blatantly guilty of that as “LMGTFY” and move on.
(LMGTFY = let me google that for you, a phrase but also a link generator one could send someone that opens to a recording of their question being typed into google search and then providing them with results)
People are starting to do this more often because the search engines are failing them. Google has long stopped being reliable. I can’t tell you how many times I would ask a question that relates to a law in my state, out of curiosity and I’d get a totally different state in the country. It’s frustrating. I’d almost always get California-related stuff. Like hello? I don’t live there!
Questions that are more appropriate as websearches. No need to ask here to learn the capital city of Lithuania or the law on jaywalking in OP’s home town.
I usually tag the users most blatantly guilty of that as “LMGTFY” and move on.
(LMGTFY = let me google that for you, a phrase but also a link generator one could send someone that opens to a recording of their question being typed into google search and then providing them with results)
People are starting to do this more often because the search engines are failing them. Google has long stopped being reliable. I can’t tell you how many times I would ask a question that relates to a law in my state, out of curiosity and I’d get a totally different state in the country. It’s frustrating. I’d almost always get California-related stuff. Like hello? I don’t live there!