(08-02-2013, 11:49)ElleR Wrote: That being said I can understand how frustrating it must be for long time members who have spent a lot of time working on their own program's, it's just a shame that threads like these tend to get quite a few replies along the lines of 'you need to help yourself' whereas threads that are a little more specific and need replies from the more experienced members get very little or zero replies.
Not totally true. Whenever and wherever I actually have something helpful to say in more specific threads I always put my input in. There's others like me. The problem is, some of those people have stumbled upon unsolved questions and kinda NEED to solve them themselves and help out the community by posting what they find out. Or one of the more experienced members would need to take it upon themselves to research into it, and I, for one, simply do not have time to research things that do not apply to me.
It's not a matter of us not WANTING to help people - it's that we are in no way obligated to help when we ourselves are as clueless as they.
EDIT: You'll also find me occasionally trying to nudge people who post these more vague threads into the things they ought to start off their research on. For the most part, I tend to ignore them, though. They're vague. There's nothing there I can REALLY help on. Like. At all.