I don't see where anyone has explicitly stated "Don't ask questions" or "Stop asking questions" or any words to such effect.

People are basically trying to help direct Verno to better help himself seek answers to his questions because they do seem to be quite in-depth. I personally don't mind answering questions (you know I can talk about Transformers till the cows come home and then some ) -- but seeing as Verno seems to be seeking very in-depth knowledge of Transformers canon, I just thought it may be just more efficient and time-saving for all involved if he just cut the middle-man and went straight to the source(s). In other words, we're encouraging him to become self-sufficient.

It's like that saying, "Give a man food and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for the rest of his life." We could keep going on answering his individual questions, or we could encourage Verno to acquire his own knowledge of Transformers canon and become knowledgeable in his own right.

Besides, all we've been doing is providing Verno with brief explanations or summaries of what's going on. Even TFwiki only gives a synopsis or summary.

Quote Originally Posted by Hursticon View Post
But it is extremely poor form for people to suggest you should avoid asking questions because they can't be f***** to answer them.
Look at all the posts that I've posted on this thread. Feel free to do a word count. I think I've spent a considerable amount of time in the past three weeks happily answering Verno's questions -- and I'm not saying that I'm no longer happy to continue answering his questions, but please don't regard three weeks of my time as "can't be f*****". Especially considering that it was an insanely busy time for me being end of semester and I was drowning in reports, marking etc. too. 'Kay thanks.

I don't mind taking the time to answer questions or discuss Transformers -- I just think there could be better use of the time.

Quote Originally Posted by Hursticon
but clearly you are someone who, if you had a question about something, would obviously search for answers yourself through the relevant media or at TFwiki, TFU.info and Cobra Island Toys etc. but I understand that sometimes one can just not find the answers to the questions we have so hence we turn to a forum of like minded and knowledgeable people
If the question cannot be found through a simple search on somewhere like TFwiki or TFU.info - then yeah sure, I'd be willing to try to answer such queries if I can (as I'm sure anyone else would). I have no problem with that.

And a suggestion is hardly a directive.

Verno: you're more than welcome to keep asking questions, but for the sake of expediency, may I suggest that you try doing a quick search for your answer yourself first. If you can't find the answer that you're looking for, then by all means ask away. It would save you as well as the rest of us a lot of time -- a quick search may take a couple of minutes, but if you post the question here then it make take maybe hours before someone can respond, then you have to read that response.

It's taken me 39 minutes just to type, proof-read and edit this post alone. In this time someone could have watched an entire G1 episode and read an entire comic issue.