Before Flashcoders was around, people had to solve their Flash problems on their own. After Flashcoders was around, some people didn't know about it and had to solve their Flash problems on their own.
Bottom line is - the solutions are out there and many people don't take the time to try and solve their problems on their own before taking it to the list. They think that it will be faster if they just ask the list, without realizing they are robbing themselves of an important exercise in training their own resourcefulness and problem solving abilities, and at the same time degrading the signal to noise ratio of Flashcoders. I can't tell you how many times in the past three months I've seen the same exact "newbie" issues repeated over and over. Flashcoders is not supposed to be the newbie arena. It's become the newbie area because "help vampires" have infested it. "If a question is 'beneath you' you got more problems than newbies. Nobody demands that you answer, so whee, get off the list then." I recommend reading some Ayn Rand. Just because you "need" doesn't mean you're entitled. Hasn't history proven that communism doesn't work? Don't expect others to help you simply because you need help and aren't willing to help yourself. Telling the Flash veterans to "help me, ignore me, or piss off" is eventually going to reduce this list to newbies helping newbies. Your response to "Try searching the archives or google for your answers before asking the list" is "If you don't want to help me, shut up." Apparently, petulant children have taken over. The internet is the world's most comprehensive encyclopedia. While wikipedia might have fallacious information in it, it's very rare to find misleading facts about Flash out there. This article sums it up very well. http://www.slash7.com/pages/vampires "It's so regular you could set your watch by it. The decay of a community is just as predictable as the decay of certain stable nuclear isotopes. As soon as an open source project, language, or what-have-you achieves a certain notoriety-its half-life, if you will-they swarm in, seemingly draining the very life out of the community itself." "The chief indicator of a Help Vampire problem is the lack of helpfulness-the community may still appear to be bustling and lively, but if on closer inspection the conversation is all towards the shallow end of the pool, with moderately difficult questions going unanswered, then a Help Vampire infestation is likely." _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
