[Boofo]

I wasn't referring to you saying anything. I was referring to what I have heard here before. And, yes, you did help by supplying the links, and I'm sure the new people thank you for that. But making users who are new at this feel bad by "scolding them", doesn't make them feel any better about not knowing.

As far as authors not supporting their hacks, I don't agree with you on that. There are a few authors here who STILL support their hacks no matter how long it's been. There are very few authors here who have done that many hacks that they can't find the time to support them. Some people just get the attitude that "if it works for me, then that's all I care about".

I do agree with you, however, that the new people DO need to learn to read the threads a little more carefully. I find myself at times not wanting to go through 20 pages of messages looking for an answer, too, so I have been bad at that myself. I'm trying to do better on that and read more.

If we know an answer, or like you did here, can point it out, then maybe the new people will catch on faster and have the opportuninty that alot of users didn't and get the help they need so they can go on to help others along the way. Like a chain reaction sort of thing. For every one person you help, they can help 10. And so on and so on.

I'll help anyone I can. And I have tried to, but there are alot of things I don't know enough about yet to be of too much help to alot of people. All I can do is try and hope I help someone somewhere along the way. We should all do more of that, don't you agree?

Originally posted by ixian
Didn't say they were "stupid" questions. And as for helping newbies, I agree - and I think that's exactly what I did, by providing links to the relevent posts. I mean, I could have just said "read the thread!" and left it at that, right?

There are tons of hacks here. Sometimes authors may not be able to keep up with them after months - I mean, this hack was released what, 8 months ago? Newbies need to learn just like we did that a lot of the time the answer may be right in front of them