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There are some new users around here posting their topics multiple times, asking silly questions that can be answered by a simple search in here or in google. What's with the sudden wave of these new guys? I don't mean any harm, and well they are welcome here to get any help they can get (I answer most of their questions), but why has it suddenly started occuring since 3 days or something??

Please, any new users who are reading this, please use the search function, read reviews / articles / comments, THEN come back here and post. We'll benefit from you and you'll benefit from us. Otherwise, you're wasting our precious time. Thank you.
Where's that "LIKE" button? :)

I totally agree with you yasamoka, people should learn to Google more often.
Maybe the Pythagoras entrance exam we have is too easy? Can someone come up with something that you are only likely to solve if you are the type of people who researches before posting?
How about 10 sex questions ? if you answer them correctly then you are not a geek!
and YOU SHALL NOT PASS !!! ( I love Gandalf )
Haha I was thinking of some questions like this:

What is the single precision floating point performance of an (insert graphics card here)? That needs some searching :D they don't need to understand what it means, but it may need calculation
or what is encapsulation : write a 10 pages essay about it .
Come on you are talented so why not help others ?
Out there (the internet) in a forum I use, they automatically search the database for the keywords you use in the subject line and shows you similar posts as well as suggesting to read them first.

I don't know if it's possible to have that with what's powering this forum.
What is encapsulation??
Encapsulation is one of the four fundamental OOP concepts. The other three are inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction.

Encapsulation is the technique of making the fields in a class private and providing access to the fields via public methods. If a field is declared private, it cannot be accessed by anyone outside the class, thereby hiding the fields within the class. For this reason, encapsulation is also referred to as data hiding.(Java in a Nutshell )
from : http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_encapsulation.htm

Encapsulation can be described as a protective barrier that prevents the code and data being randomly accessed by other code defined outside the class. Access to the data and code is tightly controlled by an interface.

The main benefit of encapsulation is the ability to modify our implemented code without breaking the code of others who use our code. With this feature Encapsulation gives maintainability, flexibility and extensibility to our code.
this can be solved by making a question section...single small question .....single answer (just like yahoo).
It looks like this thread is a response to http://www.lebgeeks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9408
While it should be obligatory to do some search first before asking and then just posting a question if you get stuck, some degree of humility and professionalism is always good. There is a huge difference between someone who asks "Hi, can you solve my homework for me? I don't have time to do it" and someone who asks "Hi, can you please explain how x and y work?". I don't see anything wrong with a well posted question as long as the topic has not been discussed over and and over again. Unless someone is dead brilliant and can write their own UNIX clones or build a space shuttle from scratch, don't belittle others.

Having said that, a few 'captcha style questions' on forum registration can be helpful if you want to weed out certain people. If I remember correctly, fluxbb can easily be patched to do that. I've tried it before.

Edit: **fixed a spelling mistake**
I thought that was in response to the new member, who, as first posts, opened 3 threads, all with the same exact post, asking why his PSN account did not work.
(If I was to take a guess, I'd say it's because of his connection, which is probably also the reason why he posted the same message 3 times).
But there are definitely some persons who come here with a barely dissimulated attitude of wanting to "hire a geek for free". I used to get angry at them, especially when I bothered answering and did not receive any follow up. Now I've kinda learned to ignore them.
Or when appulous.us closed down, they made a troll bridge which had questions about the origin of jailbreaking? Maybe Samer can make one which asks about the origin of lebgeeks :P
samer wroteMaybe the Pythagoras entrance exam we have is too easy? Can someone come up with something that you are only likely to solve if you are the type of people who researches before posting?
it should me a computer question like which ram is faster a 4GB DDR2 running @ 800mhz or a 2GB DDR3 running @ MHz ...or something like name 2 motherboards that are known to be good overclockers.Not math questions, because there are a lot of people out there who are good in math and can join very easily with that question.
AvoK95, the question shouldn't be biased towards hardware people. We just need to make sure of two things:

1. The person does some research before posting.
2. The person read the rules
A question related to the rules ?
m0ei wroteA question related to the rules ?
I second this proposition... This would be the best thing to ensure that the rules have been read!
here is a solution, when a new member want to register he must enter a password first, and the page only contain a password box and a button that says "send password to my email", so the new member must hack the page to change the original email address to his email address so he can receive the password.
maybe it's hard for some people to solve this but anyone who passes it is geek certified. :P
Monkey D. Luffy wrote
m0ei wroteA question related to the rules ?
I second this proposition... This would be the best thing to ensure that the rules have been read!
Something like "There is a clearly misspelled word in the forum rules or a hidden code word. Enter that word in the following box". The makes sure people have read the entire forum rules.