[Floris]

Originally Posted by Logician

You may find Amy's comment harsh but we should all see the facts in it.

Everybody should understand that hackers are the core of this community. They share their work here without any commercial intentions and we, site management, do our best to encourage them keep doing so.

But hackers are not Jelsoft employee, they are not here to support you or they don't see you as "paid customers" who have right to "demand" things. As a matter of fact they are just helping you by sharing a hack here and except a few "wow nice hack!" or "thanks a lot!" they have literally no benefit of doing so. Many hackers does not even share their hacks because they don't want to spend time writing installation manuals or even the hack thread itself. Some stopped sharing hacks because someone came into their thread and said "the hack sucks" or "User A has a better version" and the hacker started asking himself "why am I spending my time for such people".

So yes, this community is a leech community. This is the characteristic of this community and we can not change it. Our best bet is to understand this characteristic well and behave accordingly to not to kill this community. Everybody has a responsibility in this mission. Hackers should be more easy going, understanding and helpful as much as they can. We appreciate and respect them, moreover we need them. Non-hackers should be more appreciative and undemanding. The site management should find the best balance between these 2 groups and encourage hackers as much as they can to convince them keep sharing their hacks.

But whatever we all do, all should accept that this community will never become a sitepoint. The characteristic of the sites are way different.

It wasn't a leech community when I first joined