I'm going to sit on the fence on this. On one side I can see how some sarcastic comments or non-helpful responce could upset or alienate a new poster, but also I see Alains point, and all too often on this forum (and others) you see people posting for the first time without first searching / browsing the forum, or doing a google on the subject. I think people would get a better reply and more respect if they are seen to of tried resarching the project first.

I've generally had excellent support from the members here when working on my projects, but then I did come to the table with a work in progress, rather than asking someone to send me the code and schematic from first post