Quote from: bitcoin2cash on May 19, 2011, 05:33:17 AM

Quote from: goatpig on May 18, 2011, 11:15:19 PM

Quote from: bitcoin2cash on May 18, 2011, 10:56:48 PM

Quote from: goatpig on May 18, 2011, 10:34:50 PM

It's funny because that question is answered every time the difficulty changes. Maybe these people could use the search function once in a while, you know...

Have you tried it?

Challenge:

Give me a search phrase that can answer this question without browsing beyond the 3rd page of results.

My first hit, after looking for 2 minutes:

search "network hashing", match any words, check search in topic subjects only, limit it to the mining sub section. Only one page of results, 3rd from the bottom. Thread if from February.

Now consider that you actually knew what you were looking for and you still had to go through all that.

Implying the guy looking for it doesn't know? That's kinda odd. There's a wealth of information on the forum and anyone slightly better than me (not hard) with the search function can find answers faster than creating a thread about it.

The other thing is, wouldn't it be nice if 5 out of 10 newcomers wouldn't start threads about deflation being bad or the network being vulnerable to the latest chimera Bitcoin haters come up with? I'm quite certain if people tried and search the forums for their questions instead of making a thread the second they have a question, we wouldn't be seeing such catastrophic headlines on the forums all the time, and we wouldn't have to perform damage control.