Quote Originally Posted by Mezza Morta
The thing I've noticed is that the noobs continuously look past the stickies. I'd say a good portion of the questions asked by new posters in the BC could be easily answered by themselves if they just took the time to read the damn stickies. That right there tells me that a) you are impatient and b) incapable of finding things out on your own. Perhaps the awesome regs who consistently come to the BC are growing tired of answering the same questions over and over and over and over and over...

To remedy this problem, maybe the web guys here at FTR can rearrange this board or give it a makeover. This board is running the old phpBB2. If they upgrade to the new phpBB3, the stickies + announcements all appear separated on the top of each forums so it's much harder to miss. Of course this could be done with a few simple programming skills to the current board as well. Just the 2 cents from a former web guru.
QFT.. I agree with everything Mezza has said, and I know that's where all my hostility towards new players comes from (not saying i'm one of the awesome regs). If they don't have the willpower to get better by themselves, then they will not get better no matter how much stuff we spoonfeed them. I would think a beginning player that truly wanted to learn would jump at the "Beginner's Digest: Learning Starts Here!" sticky, yet most do not, and overlook it to create a thread and ask the very questions that the beginner's digest answers.