Everybody has their own reasons to ask something, and others their own reasons/ways of answering (or not answering). I believe no one should stuck on other peoples behavior, wording, actions. If someone wants to refer to source, that's an answer too, at least they read and guided to somewhere. Of course some guidance within the reply (or referral to source) would be preferable to people like me.
I started to follow this forum at 2013, be a member on 2015, become a subscriber recently. I learned a lot, and keep learning. I was not so active in shooting, processing side due to health reasons, but recently getting active again. All this time I see that people in here are very receptive to questions and answering many questions even if I find them like: "why they still keep asking this questions, same question was asked a month ago and answered". Of course some questions are never answered.
What I also see that if people are more active in forum (more posts) they get more answers to their questions (especially for new threads). I am not that active in posting replies, so people might not reply to my threads if I open new one. I can understand the reasons, I saw a lot of people come here, ask a question got an answer (or not get an answer) and left or did not participate longer. Longer members might looking for participation (and seeing the light of participation).
On the asking side I have some other points:
- When we come and ask something it does not mean we did not search or read anything before we come (I am talking for myself). Sometimes I read too many sources (web and books) and I really got confused /disoriented as many source says many different thing in same subject. For me raising any question here is to get answer from people who "actively working/or worked" in the field. The answer from practitioner can explain many things I can't understand from a book or other web sources.
- For me, I still couldn't figure out to use search function of the forum effectively
, that being said I still can find many things searching, I wish I was better in using the search function...
-Again for me and for people which English is not native language, sometimes terms or the way language used in some resources is very difficult to understand. Or I do not even know how to search my question because I do not know which search terms I will use. So sometimes it is normal that people asking "silly" questions, as they do even not know how to start searching, a guiding answer opens a lot of new door in this case.
To conclude, if no one answers my question I will not stop. I will keep searching from other sources and try to experiment myself if I have will and interest on something. If I am not really interested I will leave/forget it eventually. This is not only for this forum or any thread, for anything in life.