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I really enjoy Mr. (Mrs.? Ms.?) Hitch's passionate ranting and raving. Please don't stop. But I need to point out three things. Firstly, a forum for a software product can forget about being a private club for the experts, where they indulge in sophisticated shoptalk after hours. The fools who don't know the product will unfortunately come begging for advice, that's part of software forum life. Secondly, nobody asks Mr(s). Hitch to participate in teaching the clueless. He/She him(her)self volunteers to do that, time and again, on a dramatic scale. Thirdly, we should all realize that we function as drawing cards for a website displaying advertisements. We parasitize on the website, and the website parasitizes on us. Nothing wrong with that, such is life. Everybody in life is a parasite, and everybody feeds parasites. This is true from the most rudimentary biological life forms up to something like a doctor needing a patient to survive, and vice versa. So when we go into rages, and look at the rising viewer count, let us think for a moment about the parasitic system we are feeding into. Just to regain our mental balance.
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