Are you getting sick of this?

I'm right there with you ...

- Asking questions without enough details:

+How much should I charge?

+Why are my pics over exposed (no example and no details)

- Asking question over and over and over again because they don;t like the answer.

+What lens should I get to shoot concerts? I'll be at the front row? (8 friking times in 2 days).

- Asking questions that have been asked 8000 f'ing times already.

+ What should I call my business?

+ What gear do I need to shoot weddings?

+ how much should I charge for my first wedding?

- Asking a question and choosing the most flattering answer instead of the actual best answer.

+ Is my photography any good?

- Asking a question and then telling people who answer you in a way you don;t like to basically go **** themselves.

- Asking a question and deleting it after getting the answer.

AAArgh!

Oh yeah, even when they give me the 10 pts.

I won't open an Instagram question, what do I name my fauxtography business, how much to charge for my first wedding, yada yada yada.

I find very few technical questions anymore - and even then some jerk asked about his fogged Cibachrome paper at least 3 times I know of. I wanted to scream "Hey Dumbassssss, the paper is 10 years out of date. It is no longer any good. Move on!"

@Vince: 1000 pts in a day? Wow, that is blatant! I will admit to voting for my own answer, but that is only when there is no other that is correct. I usually won't vote on my own answers except when I see a rookie who I know is gaming in here - just so they don't get the satisfaction. I will generally vote on questions I did not answer (except Instagrams) and whoever answered "best" (read: most correctly) will get the vote, regardless of who they are.

@Anon=you're new, and you've given some excellent answers. Wait a while. The kiddies will wear you out.

Edit: @Anon: I stumbled into this place in 2006. It was great - lots of hard questions on technique, both film and digital, and polite askers. This room used to be fun, with compelling questions. One guy even got me off my a** to test whether one should use CC filters or Custom white balance (beginning days of digital.) It was worth the work. Now, not so much. Even if the kid chooses a best answer, their comments are often quite snotty. I"ve taught photography at the college level - and am used to spoiled children, but lately these kids have come across a lot worse. Maybe Tim is right - the anonymity of the internet allows them to be more rude than they would ever be in face to face interactions.

Good for you with your RSS filters - I just use my eyes.

I've reached the point I don't come in much anymore, it is generally pointless or worse, it is a waste of my talent (and all of yours, too.)

Repetitive nonsense questions are sure to annoy but it's the sad ones that get me the most. We'll all remember the days when, if you left a camera out and friends came round they would pick it up, ask if there was a film in and wind on a fire the shutter if they could without wasting anything. Cameras they knew nothing of, they looked at and worked out* what did what.

That ability to look at something and analyse it seems to have faded away. If one knows what something does it should not be impossible to work out how it does it. This is especially galling when a digital camera is under consideration because trying something gives immediate results but many just seem incapable of trusting their own thought processes. This is not helped by a lack of curiosity as though it was being trained out of kids at an early age.

On Ebay I see sellers claiming "I know nothing about cameras" when they are selling one with the Instruction Book! They expect to be sympathised with and forgiven if a non-worker arrives with glaring faults?

*Which is why it was so much fun to leave a Zeiss Werra out for show-offs to play with. The anguished look on their faces when they couldn't find any of the knobs and levers they expected to find - priceless!

Or worse, giving a well informed, accurate answer and being reported, the answer deleted and losing ten points for my efforts. I have actually been awarded Best Answer then have it pulled a day or so later.

And worse than that, when challenging the action to Yahoo, the violation action remains. I've even cited reliable sources in my challenges, but the data are ignored.

Luckily, I have plenty of points, all earned the hard way, in public, without any proxies or other tricks, as others have done. ( how DO you gain a thousand points in a single day?)

"Are you getting sick and tired of...... "

Any frequent user here could take that and fill in the blanks all day long with all the aggravations that are inherent on this site. The incessant Instagram and app questions are getting the best of me. I try to just not even open them, but sometimes I do and usually end up losing it with that nonsense.

Bottom line, this place can be quite a cross section of people, i.e. smart, idiots, sincere, brats, fools, talented and hopeless..

Even though it is often hard, best to just take it all with a grain of salt and move on or just stay out of the place for a while.

I find a day away once in a while gets much of the aggravation out.

steve

Yes - to all of the above.

People deleting questions when you've taken the time to write a detailed, well thought out answer is a pet hate.

And oh boy, did I get trouble one time when I gave an honest answer which the asker didn't like - got stalked, had hate emails & one of my photos stolen off Flickr & reposted (captioned with abuse).

I don't know why I keep answering really - maybe it's like a train wreck, you know you'll regret it but you have to look....

....and then there are those who genuinely want to learn, who take one board what you say and who take the time to say thanks! That makes it worthwhile.

Got sick, went away, got over it; now I only answer questions for my own amusement. Don't care about points; don't care about Top Contributor; don't care about the whole phoney 'rewards' system. Don't take the violation thing too seriously. I joined that club a long time ago, and was amazed at the appalling level of moderation that Y!A thinks it can get away with. My advice, stay detached.

Yes, I'm sick of seeing some of the most mind-numbing questions that could've been answered by a little research and a lot of common sense. I think now I know what teachers feel.

But, this is my haunt now: I couldn't stay away even if all the dregs of creativity get flushed down here.

I asked my Dr about that.. And some people do get sick but usually it's not the flu. It's a bad reaction to the treatment. Some people are allegoric. They use chicken fat in the shot. Believe it or not...

omg I agree so much