"GIYF" is often given as curt response to a question that perhaps should not have been asked, or was poorly researched.
This phrase carries several insinuations, firsty that the poster did not bother to
try to
find his/her own solution to a problem, but instead 'dumped it' to the forum/chat group to solve.
It is a shortened, dismissive, response to a question deemed inappropriate. Similar to RTFM, it conveys the intonation that "If you didn't bother to
spend 15 seconds searching for the answer on your own, I'm not going to
waste a complete sentence responding to you"
As with RTFM, it carries a cruder
double-entendre along the lines of "Get It Yourself F**ker"
Example:
Q: How do I set my e-mail
password in WidgetWorks
2008 v3.1?
A: GIYF