That's the type of lazy behavior that drives a lot of experienced people away from some of these chat rooms. What self-respecting developer is going to waste other people's time before doing an initial search on his/her own? That's the type of person I would rather not help because their first instinct is to waste other people's time before investing their own.

I have heard other developers call them parasites and energy vampires.

Please do not recommend this.

I've never heard of people needing to ask where the project readme is, especially when your in a chatroom linked to the repo, which has it on the homepage.

On top of that, it's inefficient. I want a couple of paragraphs telling me what the project is about, not a conversation.

That seems... inefficient. Basically, instead of reading the readme, you suggest going to gitter to be told to read the readme?

I think I could streamline that process a bit.

Which you probably already could assume before, so you just wasted your AND somebody elses time. rude.