understand where youre coming from and it's true that some of the old members in this site doesn't wanna give newbies a chance. They quickly give you a negative for making mistakes and now that I reply on this thread, i might get a negative point too. I don't even care if they give me a negative point. I just don't wanna get banned and make a fresh name. I see some old members contributing with 1 - 3 words and i don't think they're getting negative points for it coz they know each other. You should just delete this thread and get on with browsing this site for useful tutorials. I'm sure you didn't register to this site just to earn Antipoints or Higher the number of your posts. This site has some nice tutorials so why leave.
here is the thing.... speaking as an old memeber... it's not that we don't like newbies... but if newbies come to the site and would just take the 5 minutes to read the faq and stuff, they wouldn't get in trouble. it is quite obvious the things that a person should and should not do here. there are numerous places that a newb can look to find out what will get him/her in trouble, not to mention, the old members have been more tolerant lately... i mean, there has been plenty of threads where the newbs don't get a red blast, but are advised to delete or edit the thread... if they do not then they are foolish and deserve the red.