This week is the worst time to be MacRumors regular!

[NewbieCanada]

This week is the equivalent to being at the gym New Years week. All of these noob questions are somewhere between obnoxiously annoying and completely hilarious. In any matter, It'll be nice to get back to normal after next week.

LOL, I go to a university gym now - the last two weeks have been worse than January in any commercial gym I've ever used.

 

[26139]

I like the noobs

The noobs are great on release days. They're interested, want to know more, and usually listen.

The worst is Macrumors regulars asking dumb questions during slow times just to drum up conversation.

 

[Gasu E.]

Ah, yes. The same questions asked eternally. Which of our lives are not full of questions? How can one find answers without posing questions?

Many - I cannot say all - but many came to these fora just to ask a question, or two. I know I did. I had bought an Apple computer, as a 'switcher' as the parlance has it, didn't know the first thing about it, am not a techie, and - while trawling the internet, tripped over this site.

Thus, I lurked a while - asking questions, after all, is so embarrassing. You are revealing gaps, sometimes great gaping yawning gaps, in your knowledge, deeply embarrassing when surrounded by the cognoscenti.

So, you join, just to ask a question. And, then, some of us stayed, because it was an interesting place, the atmosphere was congenial, you encounter some like-minded mates who actually develop into friends, and you decide (well, I did) that this social media online stuff is here to stay, and so some small corner of it might as well be colonised.

And all for a question, a single, simple question (but not simple until answered), without which one (this one) would not have joined.

In any case, I used to be a history and politics teacher, and - in the classroom (yes, all of life is not in the classroom, but sometimes, it comes fairly damned close) - one of my golden rules was 'there is no such thing as a stupid question.' However, on the other hand, there are stupid answers……but it is our task - is it not? - to do our best to assist others on the path of learning (and mastery of new technology).

It is better to ask than to remain mired in blissful and wilful ignorance……a little thought which serves as merely one of my mantras in this life…...

Ah, yes, I had forgotten about those first days with MacRumors. Then I ate a Cheez-it, and all the memories came rushing back to me.