adamjackson
Well-Known Member
Before making my first post here, I read Joy of Homebrewing. I then lurked on this forum and others for a while and read a lot of home brew blogs. I then went and watched friends home brew.
Then, I decided to take up the hobby.
When I hit a snag, I spend about 5 minutes searching google and HBT to see if the question has been asked before. If not, I create a thread and then post relevant info like the recipe, equipment used, dates and time frames and some tidbits that might help anyone to answer the question.
Why do so few people do this? I'm not ranting per se' but I feel like a lot of people don't see bubbles in the airlock and jump on HBT or want to dry hop and jump on here and post without searching. The wiki here is really great and I feel like we're to blame because, even though I'm a noob who brewed his first home brew in May, I lurk here daily and often see myself answering the same questions that were answered for me on the Wiki or in joy of homebrewing.
I feel like we are so nice and we answer the same questions again and again without challenging new guys to search before posting. You guys are awesome and very nice to my stupid questions but we're getting new members in the habit of always just posting a new thread instead of searching first.
If this is overly-discussed, fine but is it accepted if I see a common thread and politely link to the wiki on differences between glass carboy and plastic buckets or best practices for dry hopping or how to cold-crash? Just linking to resources is a nice way to show members the info is already out there?
Just thinking out loud.
Then, I decided to take up the hobby.
When I hit a snag, I spend about 5 minutes searching google and HBT to see if the question has been asked before. If not, I create a thread and then post relevant info like the recipe, equipment used, dates and time frames and some tidbits that might help anyone to answer the question.
Why do so few people do this? I'm not ranting per se' but I feel like a lot of people don't see bubbles in the airlock and jump on HBT or want to dry hop and jump on here and post without searching. The wiki here is really great and I feel like we're to blame because, even though I'm a noob who brewed his first home brew in May, I lurk here daily and often see myself answering the same questions that were answered for me on the Wiki or in joy of homebrewing.
I feel like we are so nice and we answer the same questions again and again without challenging new guys to search before posting. You guys are awesome and very nice to my stupid questions but we're getting new members in the habit of always just posting a new thread instead of searching first.
If this is overly-discussed, fine but is it accepted if I see a common thread and politely link to the wiki on differences between glass carboy and plastic buckets or best practices for dry hopping or how to cold-crash? Just linking to resources is a nice way to show members the info is already out there?
Just thinking out loud.