I've read through some of the discussions here and just wanted to add my random $0.02 in (these days not worth much, but that is another discussion)...

I miss the tutorials, I even wrote a few of them and consider it encouraging to see the possibility of good tutorials being rewarded and to potentially increase the depth of the discussions here (which IMO over the last many years have devolved in most cases to relatively simple PC repair questions, like OMG i have a virus)...With that being said, I also wanted to mention I stopped writing them for a couple of reasons, one of which was that I didn't particularly care for losing 'ownership' of something I chose to post here...

The other goes into the, at times, rapid/rabid responses to things like tutorials or in-depth questions (most often about hacking). At times, I recall seeing posts degenerate into flame wars and name calling and it is bad enough to have to read through all of it to get to the content I cared about, but I will say the, at times, rampant flaming caused me to chose not to post, even though I may well have been interested in the topic, I have no interest in participating in flame wars.

Off to climb back into my hole again...
/neb