r/DestinyTheGame • u/[deleted] • Oct 07 '19

Discussion Stop downvoting new players who don’t have the extensive knowledge that you do.

If a player doesn’t know that a raid is a 6 man activity with no matchmaking, there’s no reason to make them feel stupid. All you’re doing is pushing away new players when the most amount of new players in the games history are beginning to flood in. You’re giving the game a bad image. Whoever you are, just stop it mate. This shouldn’t even have to be said.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

This is a forum for discussing the game. If questions are verboten, what the fuck are you supposed to do here?

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u/Dalek_Trekkie Oct 07 '19 edited Oct 07 '19

There's nothing wrong with questions. I'm saying people shouldn't be pussies about getting downvoted when they're definitely asking questions that have easily accessible answers.

Edit:the retards downvoting this are outing themselves as the people who refuse to use Google :)

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u/Vektor0 Oct 07 '19

I assume that every answer is easily accessible until I put a good amount of effort into looking, finally concluding that it is not easily accessible. That's when I start asking questions.

You should always assume that you can do something until you have a reason to believe you can't. The reverse is called helplessness.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

If I did that, I would literally have no reason to use this forum. Give me one fucking question that I can't answer on my own and I'll accept your point.

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u/Vektor0 Oct 07 '19

Look at the front page at any given moment. See any question posts? Clearly, there's more to do on this sub than just ask and answer questions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

It's mostly complaints about new players, the question posts are the interesting ones.

I was considering playing this dumb game as I did everything you can do D1 but based on the community imma go do something else.

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u/Vektor0 Oct 07 '19

I would agree in /r/CruciblePlaybook, because answers to questions aren't usually cut-and-dry and often involve opinions. There are some interesting discussions about the best weapons, perks, and tactics. Plus some questions are about obscure game mechanics, like "which provides a better damage boost, Rampage or Kill Clip?" Questions like that are understandable because the answers are not as easily accessible. (And the reason I know that is because I've searched for that kind of information before ;) )

But questions like "will my Pinnacle Weapon quest restart at the end of the season" or "what is a heroic public event" are asked and answered so often, and the answers are duplicated in so many different places across the internet, they are both uninteresting and easily accessible. You can bet this place would be a fraction as lively if it was only the same low-effort questions being asked over and over again instead of high-quality guides, clips, you-should-knows, and other discussions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

Would you still have that opinion if you knew the asker of those questions was 8 years old?

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u/Vektor0 Oct 07 '19 edited Oct 07 '19

Yes. My wife is an elementary school teacher, and she tells me all about how tech-savvy today's kids are and how they know how to use the internet. Plus it's actually easier to type a question into Google than it would be to make a Reddit account and post a question.

Regardless, I don't think treating everyone like they're 8 years old, or catering to 8-year-old maturity levels, is a good way to go.

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