Simon Lemieux <lem### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
: have you ever asked a question about povray, a specific question and got the
: answer "Read the manual, that should answer your question" or "Try
: www.povray.org or www.irtc.org they got plenty of examples..." ??

  No.

: I'm actually pretty good at povray and I read a lot of the
: manual and looked a some of the examples!  This is a useless answer, why do
: people answer this kind of thing?

  I don't remember any concrete example of seeing this kind of answer to
a very specific question which is not trivially answered in the documentation
of some (V)FAQ.
  At least here, usually when people answer with an RTFM, it's a very trivial
thing that can be found directly in the documentation if the user just looked
a bit at it (eg. "how can I read a GIF and use it as an image map?").

  Some (V)FAQs have answers to questions which are not so easily found (if
at all) in the povray documentation but oftenly asked by people. If the
question is directly answered in the (V)FAQ, it's not a bad thing to answer
with an URL to the correct answer (actually it saves time, bandwidth and
server resources).

  Usually when someone asks something not found in the docs or faqs, or is
not trivially understood, then usually people answer properly.

  Actually the problem in this news-server is a bit the other way around:
People answer too many trivial questions instead of just saying the chapter
to the documentation or an URL to the correct answer.
  It's not a problem in itself, but when there are lots of "useless" answers
like this, it only consumes time and resources in vain.

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