Screw reading, I want to reply!

The thing is, when it rains, it pours. I swear, stupidity is contagious -- BE WARNED.

I have ANOTHER pet peeve when it comes to OSS -- the forums. DEAR GOD, THE FORUMS.

For this example, we're going to use a good ol' standby for demonstration purposes -- the user desktop experience. In linux world, you have a metric ass load of choices for your desktop environment. You can have gnome, kde, xfce, enlightenment, gnustep, and of course -- all of the copious 'we-don't-need-no-stinking-graphics' console-like-based desktops like ratpoison, ion, awesome, etc. etc. (excuse me if I missed your favourite out of the billions of tiling console-only ones.) So, with these choices, there's enough for everyone to be happy, right? NO! Apparently, people can't be happy unless they can spout nonsense from their keyboards. Let's get to the example that is currently causing me to question how humanity ever made it past banging rocks together to make fire, shall we?

This is our posted question to a forum:

Hi! I was wondering if anyone tried out the latest version of XFCE, since it really looks like it has improved significantly over the last version. I'm curious to know if thunar is stable yet and if anyone has tried using it with compiz-fusion.

Seems simple and to the point, no? I mean, this person is asking for specific information, so you would ASSUME that he would receive either an answer from someone that related to this question or no answers because no one uses xfce where he posted this message, right? HA!

Here is about the second or third reply to our poster's question:

I've been using the new KDE and it's so fast and cool. I can do so much more with the new release than anything else.

Yes, that's right. Instead of answering ANYTHING our poster asked about, this person decided to tell us all about NOTHING related to the question or the post -- except for the fact that it's another desktop environment. Ohhhhh and we're not done.

About the sixth or eighth post down, we'll get this reply:

I don't believe in using something with that much bloat and waste! I run a clean and effective desktop free of all that useless garbage. It's so much better to run Ion without all that bloated crap taking up my screen!

Effectively we have been told NOTHING by these two posters -- and in fact, not only did we not receive the information we asked for, we've been INSULTED! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

You want to know WHY more women don't get into Linux?! WHY would any woman want to subject herself to this kind of bullshit online if she doesn't HAVE TO?! ENOUGH of the penis comparisons! Your desktop IS NOT YOUR PENIS. Your IDE is NOT your penis. Your chosen programming language is NOT your penis. And last, but not least, your editor -- vi or emacs -- is ALSO NOT YOUR PENIS!

If I ask a question about a desktop environment, for the love of all that's left of rationality in this world, EITHER ANSWER THE QUESTION OR STFU. I mean, honestly, can you people replying like this not READ?! I mean, is it REALLY too hard NOT to say a goddamned word if the question doesn't apply to you? Seriously?!

Ohhhh now I know, not all of you participate in the "I didn't read the damn question but I'm going to shoot my effing mouth off about bullshit anyway" phenomena -- and to those of you that don't, I thank you from the bottom of my shoes. Thank you thank you thank you.

But the rest of you? Can you all go post to 4chan or something instead? Perhaps stay on facebook/myspace?
Wait, you've already commented without reading a damn word I said, right? That would be icing on the cake.