Ruby, this is a lost cause. Attacking mattmeck is the wrong choice. If you want to change things for the better, then I suggest you compile a list of commonly asked questions and maintain a FAQ. You can reference people to it, and when they don't read the FAQ you spent a month preparing and maintaining, you'll understand the situation better.
The reason I have the amount of posts I have is because I wrote "See sig." probably 500 times. I had the frequently posted questions answered in my signature through a series of links. My sig doesn't have that stuff anymore because I can't update it often enough to keep the important data there.
Even so, I got agitated when newbies would post individually for 3 pages about 3 questions, as if the other posts had 0 to do with what their all-important problem was. Supporting CVS is nobody's job, and supporting any of this stuff is a volunteer effort. You thank the devs for supplying us with this wonderful creation, but you don't thank them for their free support, or mattmeck's support, or derision's, or arkaria, mollymillions, or any of these guys. Mattmeck does cause embarrassment for newbies, but he DOES answer their questions. If he only denigrated them, then I would swoop in and scold him.
Don't coddle them or they'll want you to hold their hand forever.
By the way, forgive me if I forgot you and you are helpful. These names were the first to come to me.
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