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Posted By: barrysloate

I think at any given time we have people who have been lurking for awhile and would like to make their first post but are simply fearful that their question will be deemed by the "experts" as a stupid one. If they finally get the nerve to post and then get attacked or simply ignored, they will be afraid to come back. I once posted a fairly meaningful question on a Seinfeld chatboard and was immediately attacked because someone posted "this question has been asked before, why do we have to go through it again?" My response was "I only found the site yesterday, so how was I supposed to know that?" That is an example where a rude response was uncalled for. And I was off that chatboard for good.