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Don't some of you have better things to do than rip people who are looking for help? I just wanted an answer to a honest and simple question. Thanks for tearing me down instead.

Now, I probably missed something, but what part of which post made you think people here are trying to "rip" you? If you're talking about txt to pdf conversion, I am positive there is appropriate forum for your problem, and you don't need to get all defensive just because I pointed it out in my first line.

This is a great forum, but it took months to make it look more or less "descriptive" if you will. Even though you thread had good title and was right to the point, you should've posted it in appropriate forum - Lounge is not 'catch-it-all' section.

Hi bramsey,

As an "oldtimer" here, I have to agree with Al. The Devshed forums are very well laid-out, so that it is easy to find the appropriate place to do things. If something isn't clear to a newcomer, the regulars will point that out right away. This is not something to get "personal" about, but just to take in stride.

And anyway, you should look at Al's response as a positive thing. He was offering advice about where you would get the most help.

Yes, different people might have different opinions about what belongs in an ambiguous area like the Devshed lounge. So be it. You heard Al's opinion. Deal with it as an opinion . No one forces anyone to do anything here, except the forum owners and moderators, who sometimes shut down offensive members. (which are very rare here)

So far, I have found Devshed to be one of the politest tech forums around, but the members here are serious.

Welcome.

I actually avoid answering questions that are in the wrong forum and encourage the poster to post to the correct one- I think of the forums as a kind of knowledgebase, in addition to the instant gratification a questioner gets.

Say someone else is trying to figure out how to create pdfs dynamically- Are they going to search the lounge? No. Why should I bother answering a question here, when it's less likely that folks down the road would benefit from it, and when it's more appropriate in the perl forum.

This self-policing keeps the right kinds of discussions in the right places, and builds a useful set of knowledge over time.

BTW- post your query to the perl section. There are a lot of ways with perl to create PDFs on the fly. Had you posted there first or after being encouraged to indirectly by Al Capone, you would probably have an answer (or several likely avenues) by now.

This isn't a bust on you personally. It's just a self-governing community trying to keep things on point.

I have a suggestion for this board. We need a few super mods that can moderate every forum. People like AlCapone, who've I've seen around a lot and in different forums. There's all these threads people put in the wrong forums, and we just need someone that can move it to the appropriate forum (with a link from the wrong forum) where people there can help..
Telling them to put it in the right forum will only lead to another of the same post, and if people reply to the original post in the wrong forum and the one in the right forum.. well you get the point. It's quite messy.
The ZeUs person seems to be a mod of many forum and an admin also, yet we don't even see him around.

ZeUs is one of the founders - he doesn't have to be here at all, he is administrator - that is he (and other admins) solve problems that mods can't.