We are so bad! :D

[JLarsen]

Well, I think he posted in the wrong forum. I agree, you shouldn't post in the "speedcubing" section until you've checked if the question's been answered. But the "beginner's" section should be fair game, in my opinion. It's filled with "duplicate" topics as it is, I figure if you don't want to repeat an answer, don't post in that board at all.

I don't feel as though I could post anything worthy of not being moved in the "speedcubing" section. It seems just like an elitist thread, where all and any questions a barred....regardless if they haven't been asked before.

Pertaining to repeat posts; I didn't realize how active this forum was when I first came here, and I mistakenly made a Petrus vs. Fridrich thread.....you can imagine the welcome I recieved....I think that maybe when you register theres needs to be like a little introductory page that you are sent to. I bet that would end a LOT of issues, I know I wouldn't have made that thread.

How to speed up posts; I don't think that asking for WHAT to improve on is an issue(how is my last layer compared to my f2l) or something like that, but questions of what to do are pointless, because at a certain point, the only way to improve, is practice.

 

[byu]

Well, I think he posted in the wrong forum. I agree, you shouldn't post in the "speedcubing" section until you've checked if the question's been answered. But the "beginner's" section should be fair game, in my opinion. It's filled with "duplicate" topics as it is, I figure if you don't want to repeat an answer, don't post in that board at all.

Well, I will give you my experiences when I first joined the forums. I made a thread called "How to get 20 second averages?" (please don't laugh at me) asking for the trick to doing it. When I read this post:

byu, a lot of questions you're asking here can be answered by reading a lot of the material already available online or discussions already posted here. We're not here to spoonfeed you basic information.

Honestly, "what's the trick"? That's exactly what non-cubers say to us, as if there were a single secret technique or move sequence that makes you solve quickly every time.

When I started cubing, there wasn't the wealth of information on speedcubing on the internet like there is today. Now it's everywhere, there are active forum communities, websites galore, YouTube video tutorials for people who don't like to read, and people still ask things like "What's the best method?" Kids these days...

I became angry. I thought that people should be nicer. I considered quitting the forums since everyone was mean, and I actually did, for a week. Now I see that this post was true, and I was just being lazy and wasn't using the search function like you're supposed to. The thing is, I didn't look at the toolbar or in the sidebar and see the thing that said Search: