Postby Juan Expósito » Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:50 pm
I feel that too about first posters/askers in some way.
But everyone of us has been "new" sometime. One start beeing a guess, reading every post but not writing (see below this page). Then something push you to the next step: registering and making your first post. Vinnie has THAT pushing power, increased by the fact of 6700 views, and 20 pages of "wow" comments. I would have bitten too. Sure.
On the other hand, if only the quarter part of new registered members that have been mailed with the LINK stayed and participated regularly, it would be nice. All of them has been polite and answered back with sincere gratitude, as if I was the camera man or THE drummer !!
The internet has given me so much, in so many fields... So many GREATS web sites, files, programs, texts, pictures, graphics, videos, tutorials...made BY people, and most of the times we just enjoy it, use it, watch it, learn from it...hidden behind the anonymous mouse and so few times we just stop by and say THANKS to the creator. We do it all the time, specially those of us that use internet for work, learn and communicate. So copy and paste a non-created-by-me content link is almost nothing.
Said that, as I asked to some new people in the private messages, do not stop in the leech phase and enter to THE NEXT STEP: participe, share, help...That's the BACK TO BASICS of internet.