Seriously? This has to be one of the worst threads ever. Anyone who says this forum isn't helpful is full of it. When I'd first started, I asked some silly a$$ questions and there were plenty of people there to give me solid answers. I try to do the same when I see new brewers asking those same sorts of questions now, regardless of how basic the question is. I've told people to 'search' or 'google',
because the answers they'll find by searching are better put than I could do. I've even told posters that they're idea is wrong, or their take on something wasn't quite right, when that's been the case. Sure, there's always gonna be people who cry if you don't candy coat everything, and there's gonna be the posters that ask for advice and then tell everyone answering them that they're wrong, but that's not an indicator that everyone responding to threads is being a jerk.
I'm not gonna play the 'man card' thing, 'cause as Yooper pointed out, many of the members here aren't men. It's about being an adult. If someone speaks in a way you don't care for, the adult reaction isn't to cry about it. Adults understand that everyone has their own personality type and that those personality types may or may not clash with their own, and instead of getting all butt hurt over it, an adult accepts that as a fact of daily life and
deals with it.
D@mn, after rereading that, it's not nearly as *****ey as I'd hoped.
Really though, if other people's personalities on the internet are too much for someone to take, maybe they should limit their human interaction and not go on public forums, where, you know, many different types of people 'congregate', discuss and even debate or argue their opinions and/or practices.
