[Brad]

Also asking your questions in the public forums means more people will see and maybe answer them. Once a solution is found old threads become a good archive for newbies (and us old timers ) to search for errors/mini-hacks/fixes littered all over the support forums.

As Erwin said this site is supported by volunteers, many devote hours out of their day to this site. We understand most of you do not understand php (some even xhtml) and we are always willing to point you in the right direction if you are willing to learn.

Like Erwin I answer about 10% of the pm's I get here, simply because ALOT of them are from users asking for support with their forum. I have to sort thru these pm's to find the important ones (users reporting errors with their account/the site or other issues the staff has to take care of.

This is the same reason I do not list my aim nick in my profile, at one point when I did the windows never stoped poping up and I had to turn on privacy. Do you people even relize how hard it is to do coding support on aim?!

My time for giving support is limited, and I try to do it only in the public forums so others can benifit, there is really no reason to answer the same question a millon times when a simple search would most likely turn it up.

We seem to get a lot of complaints like this now a days, and I want Alex to know that this post is not soley directed at him.