Miaghstir: The thing is, though, there is a link to the wishlist in a pretty obvious place. The trouble is, though, no one ever looks in that obvious place.

Who'd ever think that a thread called "Welcome, please read!" could contain useful information? A stickied thread, no less.

Aignur: Obvious? That's hardly obvious. You know as well as I do that "STICKY" is internet-lingo for "DO NOT READ!"

Miaghstir: The thing is, though, there is a link to the wishlist in a pretty obvious place. The trouble is, though, no one ever looks in that obvious place.

Who'd ever think that a thread called "Welcome, please read!" could contain useful information? A stickied thread, no less.

predcon: Take that passive-aggressive tone and choke.

predcon: The helpful thing to do is to create a whole new sticky thread entitled "This is where the Wanted page is".

predcon: You know damn well that the average user isn't going to do a search, whether it's the smart thing to do or not. The average user is stupid.

Delixe: The GOG team obviously love seeing posts by new users saying "Hey have you heard of a game called Dungeon Keeper? It's really good and they should get that" for the 6 billionth time.

predcon: I really don't care what you think. That's not the way to handle it.

The helpful thing to do is to create a whole new sticky thread entitled "This is where the Wanted page is". You know damn well that the average user isn't going to do a search, whether it's the smart thing to do or not. The average user is stupid. And on top of that, search engines aren't always going to give a helpful answer, especially if it's based on the Google engine, which uses one of those stupid "based on the user's web history, this is probably the page he or she is looking for" algorithms.

Being snotty and smartassed isn't going to encourage anyone to do anything except fight back and completely ignore any helpful advice the smartass was trying to impart in the first place. A prime example is the Let's Play Forum, where the admins and mods have a policy of belittling and insulting anyone who asks a question regarding something that may seem simple to an experienced video editor, but not so simple to the user asking the question, hence the reason he or she is asking in the first place. If you act like a jackass to the person asking for help while at the same time slip in the answer to the question in your flame-inducing post, the user isn't going to respond favourably.

And so I reiterate, if multiple users asking the same question pisses you off, try being helpful by posting a sticky thread dedicated entirely to answering that question before it's even been asked. You might even get off with a few reputation points.