You know what they say...You can feed a man a fish or you can teach him to fish...Which one will prove more effective in the long run??
Why are senior members expected to puke all of their secrets to someone who has no clue the actual time, money, energy, neurons, etc expelled to learn everything they know. To me, that pretty much devalues what you have accomplished. I think the best "methods" are those where people are forced to think for themselves. But a lot of times, they don't. Case in point ANY CL method. Someone posts a successful method and you can bet your fucking ass that it will be saturated and all but destroyed before the sun sets.
There are a shit load of people on this forum who haven't made a single post. They log in and learn everything they can and do something with it. They don't post threads asking "tell me everything I need to know about _____"
This forum is a fucking blessing to newbies; it was a fucking blessing to me when I found it and that was liek 7 months ago. But there is a difference between wanting to learn and be steered in the right direction and wanting to be told every single fucking little thing.
I think some senior members get irritated by the same threads being posted over and over and over and over. Use the fucking SEARCH option. Trust me, 99/100 you will find what you are looking for. And if you can't find it, then post a thread about it and create a dialogue.
I've gotten IMs from people on here who ask me to tell them everything I know...I'm not going to. There is a WEALTH of information to be found on this forum. My knowledge didn't come from PMing and IMing members asking for their secrets...it came from figuring out WHO on this board KNEW what they were doing and shared bits and pieces and LEARNING from them and their experiences, and running with ideas.
So, I feel that people around here are extremely helpful and give help where it is deserved.
This reminds me of when I owned a photography studio. People ALWAYS wanted me to teach them everything I knew. Take them under my wing, etc. Nobody did that for me, it was 5 years of college, WORKING for other studios, etc. Everyone seems to want a free ride. Can't blame people for asking.