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@benedictrm already gave a great response. In short: we are trying to teach them to stop being so entitled and to perhaps be able to solve their own problems next time. Also, I think most regular users here reflect on their actions all the time. I do, anyway. However, I, and I suspect many others, have come to the realization that the best way to help is to steer users toward helping themselves rather than spoon-feeding them. It may not help them in the short run, but in the long run, it will be more effective for them once they get a chance to reflect on what they have been told. You probably disagree with this, and that is completely fine. However, what I would then invite you to do is to become an active part of this community and help new users by posting links or answering questions, as you mentioned before. You can practice what you preach instead of simply “wasting your time” by complaining about other people complaining. You still overread my point though, you could’ve just quoted my whole post and not only one sentence 😀 I agree that spoon-feeding is not beneficial either, because the people trying to help give alot with little return. Perhaps I just disagree with the way you are trying to steer those users into a self learning and self motivated (and self researching lol) personalities. It could be more benefical if you simply a drop a link to the FAQ when someone asks the same question for the 10000th time, thats what FAQs are there for after all. On discord servers that I am active on which have a very healthy teaching environment, a bot automatically detects FAQ (for example “how to learn C#”) the bots automatically posts a link to helpful resources + a hint on how to ask specific questions. Thanks for inviting me being an active part of this community, but I do not like the common sense of the active contributors. You said yourself that I am wasting my time, even though all I did was trying to constructively critize. If the most active contributors react in such a way, without even reading my content, then it is a red flag for any community that is trying to be helpful and self-improving.

I agree with you all, but I have to say you also overread my point rather blindly and carelessly. The point is that you are wasting your time and energy complaining about these kind of people, instead of either ignoring it or simply drop a link to where it was answered before. What you do isnt benefical in ANY way, if its not making things worse, especially when trolling. I get that it can be frustrating at times, but I’d suggest doing the same thing that you expect from them and reflect on your actions.

Of course I feel the same way about repeating questions, especially if a simple search could’ve get the results very easily. @benedictrm & @alex_sampaio I am critizing is the fact, that you take so much energy right now to prove the asking person wrong, to make them feel bad about asking, instead of researching. Just dont put your energy into that, instead you you could simply answer or atleast paste a link to the question already answered. Save your selfs and everyone else some time and energy. 🙂

But why would you take the time to write 6 full sentences about how you have to repeat yourself giving advice, instead of simply give your advice in 2 sentences. Its a loose loose situation, because you waste your energy and the one asking for advice got nothing. Also, alot of people read advice posted on the internet, so the OP might not take your advice seriously, but if atleast one scrolling person got something from it, it should be worth it.

sharing is caring 😀

mhhh, low competition + easy sounds like a hard to find catch.

There might be several reasons for that. Like @blavaro mentioned, the number may change because gigs get activated and deactivated.but I suppose thousands within a minute is quite a lot. I guess it has to do with the keyword and subcategory. For example someone might have selected WordPress as a subcategory on the gig but has nowhere mentioned it in the description or title, therefore will not be part of your search results.