I think back to my early days on the internet and how I couldn’t navigate my way back to sites I’d somehow miraculously found.
I think of our neighbour who can’t seem to find anything twice on the internet. Almost every conversation with him includes a reference to a site he found that was amazing but he has absolutely no idea what it was or how he got there.
When people don’t come back to their questions, I usually give them the benefit of the doubt.
Now, if they’re obviously back and arguing some point but not clarifying things, then I might get peeved.
… but then, I look at the posters at the site I help admin/mod and how people type out the same answer to 5 or 6 or 10 people who responded to their original posts and I think… oh they don’t realize that we’re all reading everything AND they really don’t know how to provide those clarifications..
So many things about QA forums are just not as intuitive as their designers thought/think.