AAAAAAAAUGH!

[ahedonia]

Does there exist, on this planet, a forum about computer use where a person can ask questions and actually GET HELPFUL, FRIENDLY ANSWERS TO THEM instead of:

1. Being immediately dissed for not knowing the answer already, for not having divined it through some unnamed form of osmosis they're apparently all using,
2. Enduring unbelievable, totally off-topic gasbag rants about the utter wrongess of approach you're taking in trying to solve the problem and how you SHOULD have gone about it, while the question you asked goes utterly ignored,
3. Being spammed with useless I-could-have-told-you-that sneers once you report back how you struggled through and solved the problem yourself, no thanks to them, or
4. Having to fucking suck down all said feelings, at least on the forum, because to mention your absurd mistreatment will start a pointless flame war?

I HATE this phenomenon. Trying to learn becomes a process of needless public humiliation at the hands of people you wouldn't cross the street to piss on if they were on fire. No wonder the fuckin' losers never get laid.

Other than that I'm pretty calm on the subject.