MSI says "Read The F*cking Manual"

MSI, the global hardware producer, has already been "fed up" with repeating information easily found in user manuals, as it informed over 97,000 people registered with its support forums.

Moreover, MSI had installed an "RTFM" chip on its hardware boards to determine whether users had read their manuals and that anyone who hadn't read them would be banned from support. For the uninitiated, RTFM is a widely recognized acronym for "Read The Fucking Manual."

The MSI-forum and MSI-support team are fed-up with explaining things that can be found in the “manual." So, users can read an email message from the support team, which apparently went to every person registered for the company's support forums.

RTFM chip had been monitoring the behavior of users for "some time," the email from the company said. "So MSI decided to ban people from support, RMA, and the forum who has done the damage themselves or didn't read the manual the first of next month," it said. "We know who you are, and we have gathered enough information via our RTFM-chip."

However, the company's support team has recently announced it was an April Fools' joke. But, why it came out on March 25, not on April 1?

"We are sorry people took this for prank for serious ," says a forum post and email message from the company's support team head. "We thought of this prank after answering the many posts where people ask the obvious that is already in the manual.