Buckle up.
And to whomever is doing it: stop telling us to RTM...
I always say, if you want to talk trash about me, make sure I hear it because I want to enjoy it too. So next time, just tag me Salty. No need to infer.
FYI, I do read manuals, but if I read every page of every manual for every piece of hardware or software I use (cameras, computers, amplifiers, drum machines, guitars, audio interfaces, lighting controllers, video projectors, microphones, mixers, image editors, electronic drums, synthesizers, video editors, fog machines, audio editors, etc.), I'll be reading manuals for the next 5 years.
This is the best attempt at
justifying relying on
someone else having read the documentation that I have ever seen. Thanks for being honest and admitting that you would much rather post a question here than look it up for yourself. I have an e-ink tablet and I have PDF user manuals for every device I currently use, loaded in the tablet. It's in my studio with me and out on the road wherever I go. I'm often using different types of action cameras, microphones, drones, etc.. The truth is, it takes far less time to search a PDF file than it does to come to the forum and type out a question. And, I can get the answer I need
instantly instead of having to wait for someone to reply. This kind of offline task assignment workflow doesn't really work in the end. The poster can spend days, up to never, before the answer is found.
Then there comes the multiple-thread cross posting that
the moderators have to clean up.
So
@kenact, we're sorry that your time is too precious to read all the manuals. But what I'm really sorry for is the fact that you consider
everyone else's time to be worthless and available to you to squander. If you own all that stuff than you can afford to
hire a PA to assist you.
If it were up to me, I would require that the new thread creation process presented a series of questions that the poster would have to answer in the affirmative before allowing the thread to be created. Questions like: "Have you thoroughly read the User Manual?" "Have you
searched the User Manual for keywords related to your problem?" Even though I suspect that a number of posters wouldn't be forthright with their answers, the honest ones would most likely go back and learn how to search for themselves and use the forum for higher level troubleshooting and workflow improvement. But, it's not up to me.
obviously you read it. That's why we're here to have you tell us what we need to know.
I hope you read what the OP said not even a full hour later (that didn't age well at all). I'm here to help too,
but not waste my time with lazy people. So please, feel free Salty. Have at it. But remember, you're dealing with someone who things RTM is a time waster and normally those types will suck the life out of you.
I'm bowing out ladies and gentlemen. I'm turning off notifications for this post. Any and all future interactions on this thread will be in the capacity of a
forum moderator.