Most questions have been answered many times over and it's tiresome that people don't bother searching through the posts here, or in the MeLabs archives first. Naturally it's easier to post a question and get an answer handed to you on a plate than make the slightest effort in finding the answer for yourself. I always fail to see what's wrong with getting a breadboard, shoving a few components into it and writing a couple of lines of code to see what would happen, rather than first posting a message saying "How can I interface my PIC with my Toaster" or "Can you do my homework for me (because I'm too busy or bone-idle to do it for myself)?" Believe it or not that actually happened on the email forum a few years back!

Actually what you need is a "Last Logged-On" Date against the Members names – like they do on the dating websites. Most folks join the forum for a reason... that being their project is broke and they don't know how to fix it and would rather someone else did it for them. Thereafter they're never heard from again. As for contributing, well... According to my "Who’s using what?" survey, there’s only a core of about forty-five of us here anyway - and I do applaud the honesty of one of those saying they're only here for ideas!