Why are you wasting time writing a post when you could be solving the problem?

WARNING - Possible hypocritical post of the year follows...

Maybe I've allowed myself to become more aware of this issue, but there appears to be a steady flow of posts, particularly in the Main Forum, that are just moaning about a minor problem, attempting to get more folk involved, creating needless discussion and not actually dealing with the issue and getting on with life.

Now, I can see the risk I'm running here by appearing hypocritical by posting this very thread, but I also see value by alerting some people to their time-wasting ways. At the very least we can help reduce pointless posts by not getting involved, not even to ridicule, but simply by ignoring.

Most of the time it doesn't seem necessary to me for the post makers to be alerting the wider community of their problem, it's not adding value and not really serving any purpose other than to boost post count or increase personal exposure.

This unnecessary activity is not just confined to new members of the forum, it is a tact used by members with many thousands of posts too. These posters are more often than not more than capable of solving their little problem all on their own and it quite often such an insignificant issue it really isn't worth alerting the rest of us.

Sometimes the content of the posts on this place reminds me of the calls you get to a two-bit radio show phone-in and the ensuing 'conversations' are no better.

I'm not naïve enough to not know that this is a minor issue in itself and probably will never go away, but maybe we could make a small dent in the percentage of useless posts.

There you have it - the result of a 5 min coffee break that maybe should have been spent doing some work.