The posts i've read reminded me of our dear CJay.
He hit hard, he was straight forward, but in my early days, he helped me work things out, military style.
"What do you mean? Creative SB is ****, get a decent interface! And for that simple editing, you might want to RTFM"
(Well i may have overdone the posts, but i had quite the same "hurt" value when i read it)
I think i have been told RTFM for about 5 times, until i told them that my manual was washed away by a flood that went inside our house (I saved up my dad's "The Cure" LPs above all.)
High post count, low post count, on my experience, it didn't matter.
Bitflipper was my first close friend here, then came SpaceDuck, then came Bapu and the CH crew.
I have not read the posts that Carissa have may felt being offensive. I don't roam upstairs, even my tech support problems are posted on the CH. But i know, there ARE some people upstairs that may be offensive, defensive or just rude. Whether it be siding with Sonar or not, we know there are people upstairs that are unkind, sometimes making me not want to post there anymore. Maybe that was what Carissa was saying. I also was once sad about the attitudes of some people upstairs (Note, there are unkind users who have low post counts, just to point out), that's why i went down, and that's where i grew, downstairs, and i'm happy with it.
I just disagree with the experts thingy and the forum having cliques. Even as a new user i have never been mobbed by a group of unkind people which were in one alliance. It's too much of a generalization. And about the experts: Most of the experts here are kind. And i don't think experts would be afraid to uphold their expertise to a less-skilled poster.
The downstairs community itself is more than enough to address all help in all topics. It also lets me be free in non-Sonar things, heck i even asked something about Cubase, and i openly said that i have switch to CB5. Yeah maybe i ranted once about Sonar not working for me lately, but that's me, it just couldn't work for me.
About post-count to amount of seriousness, i just want to explain (I'm too lazy to search who posted that statement.)
The reason why the first comments were serious, were because it was still upstairs. ANYTHING that gets redirected to CH gets OT and silly, and it was just coincidences that the ones who posted upstairs had low post counts, and the ones here had high post counts. Okay?