On 9/15/19 5:47 PM, Ashley Whetter wrote:
No matter what's being said, it can always be worded respectfully. If someone came and asked this question in person, would you sarcastically tell them to try googling it? Probably not. I think we're all friendlier than that.
I don't know about others, but when I run into the same situation, instead of saying "just Google it" I provide a few links to get the asker a start. Been doing that, in one form or another, in one medium or another, for my entire 46-year career. Back in the beginning, before the Internet, before ARPAnet, I would provide a few references for the person on a quest to look up in the library. Working on the theory that "give a person a fish, they eat for a day; teach them to fish and they eat forever." If someone can't play nice, they should not play at all. We are all in this together, from retiree to greenhorn.