I think it's perfectly acceptable for people to remain silent if they don't have anything useful to say, but I will admit that those messages urging people to post kind of contradict what I just said. They are annoying messages though
When I post questions on other forums I usually preface it with something like "Hi guys, I've tried to find this in google, and searched these forums, but so far not come up with anything useful. I've spent several hours on this problem and have managed to find x, but can't quite get it to work together with y and z. I've tried a, b, and c already (I saw a useful post from John Smith in the blah blah section, but it didn't work for me). I'd be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction". I find that approach usually works well for me, and I usually try to follow it up with a thank you if I get what I need. If I do find the answer for myself, I always go back to my thread and update it because there will always be others that follow the same trail via a search engine looking for the same information (assuming that I managed to spell correctly in my post).
At the end of the days, it's just good manners.
are you going to ban me now?
you are responsible for allaying our biggest concernn about moving to ch - the sky+ can come too!!!
kate
it's just a colon, a p, a left (, a |and a right )