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As I see it this forum is best used as a place to bounce ideas off of others and the like.  It makes a good replacement for a team.

Here, here.  Very astute observation there. 

For those of us (which are more than we realize) who work out of the home over the internet to do our programming jobs, this place is a valuable place indeed to find a team. 

Of course, on every great veteran team, there are always going to be a few “rookie” new hires.  For legit “rookie’s” that need a little help going in the right direction, true veterans are usually happy and even eager to help them come up to speed.  (For those we can see that are “obviously wired to be a programmer,” especially.) 

However, those new kids in school looking to get someone else to do their homework for them generally aren’t making new friends.  There is a distinct difference between a kid in school asking the smart kid in class to help him understand his homework and asking the smart kid in class to do his homework for him.

I’m wired, pleased to meet you. 😛

I don’t think it has anything to do with age. I hate everyone equally, regardless of the year of their birth 😉

I must admit I find myself asking a lot of questions in the code and application development forum. Just now I have asked for help writing a select statement. However, I’d never ask someone to write complete blocks of code for me. I also try to balance out my own questions by helping others where I can, I wouldn’t want to appear as a cheap skate who only joined this community to get answers on his php questions, CI related or not.

I’ve been quietly amused by all of this fun. I wasn’t going to contribute until I just now came across this one…http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/85763/ and I couldn’t hold back.

Clearly this poster bid for a project they were not qualified for, either fibbed about their qualifications to win the bid or under cut the competition so deeply they couldn’t be refused, is being paid for the effort, yet hasn’t a clue how to move forward, and…

you guessed it, wants someone here to tell the story of how to write the code required for the magic to happen.

Does that wrinkle anyone’s skin back just a little?

Does that wrinkle anyone’s skin back just a little?

Yeah. I think these kids need to be told, straight-up, what their problem is. So, I didn’t hesitate to mention it to him in so few words. It was at least a sincere request…

Does that wrinkle anyone’s skin back just a little?

Yeah. I think these kids need to be told, straight-up, what their problem is. So, I didn’t hesitate to mention it to him in so few words. It was at least a sincere request…

And you’re damn right.
There were a few topics some guy made asking really basic questions (you know, the ones “what does @ do?” and “what’s a foreach loop???”) and I just thought, “well, somebody should tell him he should go have a look in the php documentation or JFGI… But no! People answered politely…

Okay yeah, it’s very nice and such and it’s part why I love the CI community so much, because everyone IS so friendly. But that’s just inviting the idiots…

Well, that’s just my opinion offcourse and it might be a little harsh, but I come from another community where people requested entire websites and when you asked them what you would get as payment, they’d call you a dirty capitalist and go somewhere else. We reacted harsh on that too and it stopped and now the place is just great.

We have a winner.
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Great choice!