Lecture? Monday Morning Lecture:
Perhaps OP will make a journey thread soon, but thankfully he won't be flamed for it, because so many people have already been hardcore flamed for journey threads that the Admins found it wise to create the IM Journey section to both quench the internet-hate as well as silencing the chipper folk making these journeys that led nowhere. To further my claim of their wisdom, the Admins of old found it wise to gather Frequently Asked Questions into a single section colloquially referred to as FAQ.
The FAQ section, the link Duffers posted (the post GreyWolf spent his time making), and other threads/posts address this exact same topic.
No less than 3 users answered OPs question. Was there any feedback or gratitude from OP that he understood or appreciated any of the help that he wasn't entitled to, but was granted anyway? No. This became a joke of a thread.
No favors are being done for the OP by telling his peers to back off. This is IM, not bible camp. He got his answer with respect and the type of answers equitable with the maturity of the question posed.
The mantra of this forum(ad nauseum to an extent, surely) has been for people search for their information. This is simply good life practice and it reduces clutter and server load. Think about the reduced bandwidth and saved $. New users to Super Admins have lectured many OPs' to use the search bar instead of creating the same threads over and over again. How is this different? No one was even being srs here.
You didn't ask these kinds of questions OP asked or made these threads when you started here, or anywhere I'd imagine, nor did I. Composure.
This site hasn't become DP because of the brotherly horizontal-oriented discipline that doesn't require an escalation the issue for something as mundane as this was, as opposed to circle jerking that goes on over there and the allowing of unprofessional nonsense to perpetuate. Bans are a last resort, and always should be. I think we remember a few users who got BERATED, and all of a sudden turned their game around and became pillars of the community.
A talking to builds character. Babysitting creates people asking to be spoonfed and will lead to nothing positive for the forum in the long run. We know this.
Don't get soft on crime, s0ap. The site needs you, we need you, Colonel "Kernel" s0ap.
And, let's count our blessings here: at least this wasn't asked in wickedfire or else the OP would have been told to kill himself via scorpion stings to the eye.
