Is it me or has the standard on this forum dropped recently?

[suityou01]

Sure. And if someone tried to start a discussion engendered from a brainfart, they'd be greeted with ridicule. The Greeks and Romans were no ways more "civilised" than we are.

Anyway, while there may be no stupid questions, there certainly are a huge number of inquisitive idiots.

[BrilloPad]

Since ancient times, a forum has been a place where people could meet to engage in discussions, have debates or socialise.

I don't see that it's helpful for posters to belittle other people's questions as "stupid" or by telling them to "do a search" without offering further detail. Taken to it's irreducible minimum, you can find an answer to any answerable question by doing a search so why have a discussion forum at all?

If someone asks a simple question then the good and the great here will often post a clear and concise answer with a link to the authoritative source for further information. Feel free to throw your insults around in the pub or the playground if that is the limit of your wit but let's not let them degrade the value of the professional parts of the forum.

There is also an "ignore" function which works well and serves as a reminder that a particular poster is someone you don't want to engage with..... Try it, it's quite liberating.

Thats all very well. But in this case its a limited debate as what admin says goes. You think cuk is a democracy?

[suityou01]

Thats all very well. But in this case its a limited debate as what admin says goes. You think cuk is a democracy?

Democracies are so last millennium daaaaahlink.

[darmstadt]

Democracies are so last millennium daaaaahlink.

Spoken like a true UKIP supporter

[suityou01]

Spoken like a true UKIP supporter

[Wanderer]

Thats all very well. But in this case its a limited debate as what admin says goes. You think cuk is a democracy?

Very few things in life are truly democratic, "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one".

[AtW]

Spoken like a true CUKIP supporter

FTFY

[MaryPoppins]

Easy, some of the posters are from non IT people if you read their posts in Accounting/Lega and Business/Constracts.

Anyway I'm not trying to start any stupid debate, as posted above I hadn't read the home page in years - yes it does say it is for IT contractors, so you win ok?

I'm not IT, I found this forum a few years ago looking for advice about summat or other, I forget. No idea why I hang around, other than to pick on psychocandy of course.

[suityou01]

I'm not IT, I found this forum a few years ago looking for advice about summat or other, I forget. No idea why I hang around, other than to pick on psychocandy of course.

What about me?

[darmstadt]

What about me?

Are you sure that you're not MF in disguise? Y'know, a kind of Walter Mitty type?