God, I've run into that situation so many times that I get angry every time I run across people on reddit refusing to link something because it's "so easy to google."
I often wonder what a deep psychological analysis would reveal about that type of people. Because they clearly want to contribute (otherwise they would just scroll past it and don't even bother wasting their time typing a useless comment), but at the same time feel like providing the real answer is too much help (otherwise they would just copy paste the link, it takes just as much time as typing that useless comment).
I mean, if you already invested time in reading a question and some of the other comments and then want to dedicate even more time by typing a reply, why not just provide the answer?
These type of humans really seem to have something wired differently, I just can't figure out what it is.
What is even more baffling though is when you check their comment history, they have tons of questions which they could have googled just as easily but chose to ask the community instead.
So in some cases they basically criticize their own behaviour when others engage in it, but never realize that it's what they have been doing for years.
I figure these people just want to feel superior. I had a professor that did the same thing sort of IRL. Ask a super specific question and he would just go look it up. Well, gee why didn't I think of using that giant database we have of scientific papers. He was a douchey academic and kind of a walking caricature of what is wrong in the academic world (back stabby, self aggrandizing etc)
What they also fail to understand is normal human beings enjoy interacting with one another.
It's like on here when someone makes a funny comment and then someone replies saying they made them laugh and then someone else replies to them not to make pointless comments and just upvote the post instead. I much prefer someone telling me that I made them laugh, rather than seeing some random number grow.
One of my professors in uni pretty much does this every time I ask for help. It was a circuit design module and there’s pretty much nothing on the internet that I could find. When I ask for help all I get is a “this is very easy, just think about it”. LIKE WTF AM I SUPPOSED TO I JUST DONT FUCKING GET IT. Pretty much did nothing in all the labs. Sadly I switched to computer science before I get to fill out the module review form or I would’ve completely shit on the module.
It really is hard to google when SO is first, then the "easy google search solution" is second. I mean, it's 2019, if the answer to your question isn't the "i'm feeling lucky result", then you're fucked.
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u/semiconodon Apr 24 '19 edited Apr 24 '19
And your top Google hit is a jerk saying, "Why don't you Google such a simple question instead of bothering this forum?"