Welcome to Unix Hub.

I tend to view this community, as I do most open source communities, as a type of meritocracy, where those with proven skills and knowledge are more respected than those such as myself who are basically just end users, thus we may tend to discount newcomers until they have proven themselves worthy of our respect.

venam is a high quality member, but like myself, he can be rather abrupt at times, however venam has helped me on more occasions than I am able to remember, even though I have also been dismayed by some of his responses and have let him know, the same as, I'm certain, many have relegated me to the "peanut gallery" as a result of my drunken ramblings replete with non sequiturs.

I guess the bottom line is, don't take this shit so seriously, none of us are getting out of it alive.