[Lord Angelus]

Originally Posted by jilly

There's something called a learning curve. I know several admins who started forums knowing NOTHING about html, css, templates, coding, etc. They learned as they went along.

Why be so harsh on people who are on their way to learning? Why assume, automatically, that new people are lazy and selfish? When I first came here in 2002 I knew almost nothing about coding, and several of the 'smarter' members here were very kind and polite to me, and helped me out, and I was very grateful. A little kindness and patience goes a long way.

I definitely fit into this. When I started working with forums I knew very little. I still know little, kinda. I know what I learn from trying out the things I want to do on my forum or webpage. On a scale of Beginner to Advanced, I'm definitely at least a Beginner.

I've looked around at the number of threads with people asking for help(My previous posts have been asking for help) and it really doesn't seem like help is being offered. Reading the thread and searching work, but it's also as effective as the person's ability to find the right keywords to search for. You wont always get results related to what you want. And of course, if a person lazy or looking to get right to the answers, they'll skip that process entirely.

Personally, I couldn't find the specific help I needed from reading the originating thread(all 15+ pages of it) for what I was doing, if asking for help a few times(With quite a bit of time in between each attempt) doesn't get me anything I no longer feel too inclined to bother asking further.