I remember a time when you could go onto a message board, post a message and actually get an answer. Recently (within the last 2 years) whenever I go to places such as flashkit.com or other flash forums with a question I get one of three responses:
1) You’re an idiot (or maybe in not so many words usually followed up by #2)
2) This has been answered a billion times, go search for it
3) no response at all
None of which were the answer to my question. I see this more and more. Is it that there are so many amazing flash people out there that all questions are beyond them. I doubt it is due to their lack of time because the next message down is thesis written about how much they hate the guy that asked a stupid question or about how great they look while coding flash.
Anyone else have this response on message boards?
I’d love to bring the days back when forum “gods” weren’t jack@$$es. 
This is exactly why we should start a developer community. I agree 100%.
Ours would be good because we’d still look good while coding, but also provide solutions.
Couldn’t agree more. Flashkit is the worst of all. Much better luck these days with ultrashock.
But I’m with Craig: let’s start our own community or blog. Less life losers, more style-savvy creative pimps like ourselves.
Maybe we should invite some people who can spell their own name correctly, too. (see name above).
Isn’t that why people create forums in the first place? So they can fulfill their “god complex” by telling other people they are idiots.
PS – Where is the spell-check button on this thing?
This is why I visit anonymous forums. How can you be an egotistical SOB and boost your forum persona when you have the same screen name as everyone else.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack Up”
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