@Massimo we went into it thinking he was an idiot. We've came out of it thinking he's an idiot, but for a different reason. I don't think the joke is on us.

or a javascript pacman game to play while you wait for the site to reload ?

to be honest, i want to be able to throw shoes at them. :(

This is my thinking also. Many questions a vendor could answer, but that dosen't mean the questioner is in a position to ask them. Hell, we've got support with companies that i utterly dread dealing with, period. Also it's a little too easy to slip into abusing a close reason of this type. It almost becomes 'go away, speak with whoever wrote your software' for just about anything at all.

I think that's fair enough. As a mod you've got bigger bullets, but think sniper, not minigun.

Yeah i guess. It's just that a 'comment' seems to fit the 'heres some information' type help rather than a 'this will solve your issue' like an 'answer' might. Sometimes i have too little time to fully research, document, and articulate even the answers i know to be true. So i just want to point people in the right direction, even when it might otherwise constitute an answer.

@shog9 sometimes i do this when it's not an answer but meanly guidence, advice, tips, or occasionally when i'm only mostly sure that its right and no-one else has responded. the 'answer' moniker can be scary sometimes.

Is it better to have many mods who do less work, or just a few who do more (or from who more is expected) ? From what i can see, the burn out rate (in terms of poor attitudes from otherwise likely good people) on the few active ones seems pretty high to me. I do wonder how much harm does a large set of less active mods create ? It seems the current "chosen few" system isn't working, anyhow.