<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Maikel @ Aug 1 2006, 10:36 AM) [snapback]246231[/snapback]</div>
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I think the automated messages Guesst made would be a great tool when you're not in the mood to help out noobs.[/b]
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Especially the third one. :P No really, it's a good idea. Actually, in another Spanish AW forum I frequent I do pretty much that: I've got a note stored in Opera with a link to the Wikipedia entry for DOSBox --which in turn features a very easy tutorial--, HTML code and all. That's because it WAS annoying when people asked,
"the gmz not wrkin WHY???? plz i wanna ply sooooo bdly :-| :-| :-| :-| :-| :-| " (Free translation.)
Then I had to answer, "You need DOSBox". Then they responded, "WTF IS THAT U CLL DOS BOX?????". And then I had to commit to extensively explaining some very basic stuff to somebody for whom it's like rocket science, maybe for several posts. So I now copy-paste my answer,
"Try
DOSBox --there's a helpful tutorial lined at the end of this page."
In Abandonia it would be even easier because the links could be redirected to the FAQs and stuff the site already has. And I guess copy-pasting is less annoying that even the most cutting and laconic response. But, if a newbie doesn't want to read the links provided and asks for every piece of info to be chewed for him then I suggest to copy-paste this:
"You stupid lazy n00b, you. This is the last time I'm wasting my precious time with you lowly worm. DIE! **zaps him dead by means of javascript**"
Suggestion: Aside from the two (non-sarcasm) forms Guesst designed, there could be another one for games which not only are illegal to distribute, but they're not even old.