Shoutbox

I kept telling myself I wouldn't join this petty argument, but I need to agree with PooM on this.  Granted the average user should be smart enough to know the basics, but face the facts; the average user is shifting from teenagers to first time users.  They won't know how to use shortcuts, and they don't know what the F1 button does.  There are probably 25 to 30 percent of users that know the basics, and then there's the other 70 to 75 percent that make companies like Geek Squad rich over 404 Errors (yes, I've seen this happen).

Only a small fraction of computer users actually know what keyboard shortcuts are.  Unfortunately, the only people that beta test are people that know what they're doing.  I've seen a large amount of people going into my local CompUSA asking to buy a new computer because they're not able to go to a certain website, or their computer won't save images as anything but Bitmaps.  If, by your standards, the average user is smart enough to know basics, then 70 to 75 percent of users are below average.

On a side note: Demanding a lock when a person feels a thread is spiraling out of control (which, I may add, this thread was), then the thread does in fact need to be locked.  This is coming an Administrator of two forums, and a Moderator of three, with ties to people that have been PAID to be operators of IRC channels.  It is not immature to do so at all, it would be called 'Stopping the fight before it starts' in this case.