Or do these forums seem to be tending towards the same degradation that has afflicted
every other Java forum I've visited. I occassionally have the masochistic urge to actually peruse Sun's forums only to find them populated with annoying children who don't bother to do their own work. You know who I'm talking about, their questions almost always take one of two forms:
1. "Can you teach me programming? PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ THX"
or
2. "Can someone please post source for my homework? Thx."
The only thing worse is the children that follow with insults and other crap that serves no other purpose than to egg people on and get in the way of finding real information with a search.
When I started learning Java and visited these forums a couple years ago they were exactly the opposite. Most questions had thought behind them, they were answered intelligently and politely. For the most part, responses have never been particulary rapid but they were there.
Now I might be losing it, but I could swear I'm seeing more and more of the above examples and fewer intelligent answers. Personally, I'm afraid Javaranch is going to end up like Sun's forums as the imbeciles flood in wanting their work done for them and people like Ernest Friedman-Hill simply give up trying to sort it out and disappear.
So am I delusional or has anyone else noticed it?