This might not make sense and I drank a bit tonight, but I'll try and explain whats been bugging me recently about the flash forum:
When I joined and started posting about 2-3 years ago all the AS problems posted as threads seemed to be 'how do I make a button' or 'how do I get flash for free' or 'how do I convert my AS1 code to AS2'. I started off being mr super noob, asking more than answering and when I did answer it was normally not very helpful. Then I quickly became good at flash, and I liked that. I helped lots of people, joined in AS wars and it was good, but still all the questions were just repeats but at the time they seemed, not advanced, but acceptably confusing (by my shitty standards at the time).
But now 3 years later all the questions are still the same. it's just its really bugged me that i've got so much better but yet the forum as a whole still consists of 'how do I make a button', 'i want flash for free' and 'which is better as2 or 3' and its just depressing. the standard of the average scripter posting a problem is the same. I want people asking about how to use matrices the most efficiently, to post open source physics engines, to discuss the best way of using alchemy and other interesting stuff. the people who know their shit have become stuck inside this one thread and whenever anyone posts anything interesting (which should have their own thread), like deltas speed tests, it's swamped down by the boring news of mj dying or someone finding a website that lets them take the piss out of emos easier.
if that didn't make sense, don't think too much of it. just something that's been nagging me in the back of my mind.