foxy, I'm not sure why, but you put it in the best perspective for me to not just accept, but also swallow it down whole.

I can imagine it getting old all the time, honestly. I think my biggest annoyance was the RTFM/google it! Attitude. Usually those two phrases come off as annoyed, impatient, and elitist.

Like in your example, maybe helping someone out origonally in a tut or other thread, and then linking people who ask about the same problem in the future to what you said earlier; this comes off much nicer, more patient, and all while still retaining a warm-body research method that I know quite a few people enjoy. It's all about the attitude in how you ask or show someone where to look.