Guild Wars 2

No idea what this CDI thing people are talking about.. I haven’t been playing long.

What is it, and what should I expect from it?

Collaborative Development Initiative. Basically players and devs discuss on the forum about the game’s future, and what is best for it. Hope that helps

And here I thought it was an in game feature :p

Here are some Stickies about the CDIs:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Collaborative-Development/first#post2990012

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Collaborative-Development-Master-Sticky/first#post3662022

Welcome to Tyria, and good luck!

Lishtenbird.2814:

Garrisyl.7402:

dace.8019:

This will help you for the rest of your life. You’re welcome.

This will help you for the rest of your life. You’re welcome.

Give a man a link and you answer his question; teach a man to google and he gets answers for a lifetime. Plus, opening Google and typing your question requires far less of your’s and other people’s time, since the question does not provide ground for discussion – like build advice, feature criticism etc. (That said, I agree that forum search should either be fixed or completely removed).

Wiki is also helpful pretty often.

Some people would rather get an answer from another person. And, some people don’t mind answering other people’s questions. Before the internet people actually communicated with each other. Shocking huh?

How can you complain about him wasting people’s time when you could easily not clicked the link and not responded in the thread. You wasted your own time.

Google links to threads like this. So without threads like this there would be nothing to Google.

Fohox.9351:

Lishtenbird.2814:

Garrisyl.7402:

dace.8019:

This will help you for the rest of your life. You’re welcome.

This will help you for the rest of your life. You’re welcome.

Give a man a link and you answer his question; teach a man to google and he gets answers for a lifetime. Plus, opening Google and typing your question requires far less of your’s and other people’s time, since the question does not provide ground for discussion – like build advice, feature criticism etc. (That said, I agree that forum search should either be fixed or completely removed).

Wiki is also helpful pretty often.

Some people would rather get an answer from another person. And, some people don’t mind answering other people’s questions. Before the internet people actually communicated with each other. Shocking huh?

How can you complain about him wasting people’s time when you could easily not clicked the link and not responded in the thread. You wasted your own time.

Google links to threads like this. So without threads like this there would be nothing to Google.

+1

At the same time I don’t think anyone was trying to be mean here. (100% my opinion don’t know if its true or not)

Offtopic.

Fohox.9351:

Some people would rather get an answer from another person. And, some people don’t mind answering other people’s questions. Before the internet people actually communicated with each other. Shocking huh?

How can you complain about him wasting people’s time when you could easily not clicked the link and not responded in the thread. You wasted your own time.

Google links to threads like this. So without threads like this there would be nothing to Google.

Google links to threads like this (official) and this (semi-official).

I myself am a person who pretty often makes lists, glossaries and similar sources of concise information (not so much in case of GW2 though) which can be then found via search engines. I personally think that asking real people something like what is CDI? or what is DPS? in separate threads (unlike, say, asking “what’s DPS and CDI?” in map chat when your browser is closed and you’re busy with the game) is counter-productive and disrespectful towards people who spend their time to systematize information and make it publicly available; once extrapolated to global levels, it is a thing that hampers the progress of our world.

That said, I am okay with people who enjoy giving answers to most trivial questions, because that’s a part of their life; I usually go past such threads and sometimes post a brief link onto where such info can be found. However what I am not okay with is people who’re calling other people jerks for trying to provide a more globally useful advice – and that is the reason I spent my time writing my post.

When someone is asking a naive/simple question, there may be two reasons for this:

• A person is lazy and is willing to spend 10 times more time writing a post than googling.
• A person is not used to constructing short search queries and is not aware of the fact that such queries are easy to construct and often give fast and reliable results.

Thus, posters who post links to LMGTFY, Google and Wiki, are assuming the 2nd scenario and are trying to make Internet a better place with more experienced people. Posters linking to images about being jerks… sorry, not so much.