First of all, anyone who announces "I'm leaving, shutting down my account, I won't be back" whether it's on Facespace, mybook, snawitter or whatever is just looking for attention. Maybe we're supposed to beg "oh no, please don't go...." but in all fairness, you're probably better off shutting down your pc and getting a life. Good luck!
Secondly I've also dealt with with various people here and as a newbie, I found nothing thye've said insulting or even personal, all I ever got was plain straight advice from someone who didn't have to help me out at all, wasn't being paid to do so, isn't tech support. Yes people can be blunt but by god, I'm here to learn about my solo, upgrade/,modify my solo and fly my solo, I'm not here to gain everyone's approval and get hugs. If you feel you need that, I feel you need a therapist to deal with your issues. Learn to get approval from yourselves, not from other people, trust me, you'll be happier in the end.
I've also asked the questions that have been asked a hundred times before (but usually only if there's no clear answer to be found or if I think the answer may be out of dates based on what I find in the forum). Hey, people have been straight forward with those answers too and for that I thank them.
However when people join the forum and immediately start a pissing contest with members who've been here longer then they have? I say the issue lies with the new person, everyone else already knows the story with our long time members here (and guess what, we can deal with them, we accept them... hell, we know the risks!). So maybe the newbies need to grow up, accept that maybe they're taking everything as a person insult when it actually isn't and stop whining and acting pissy, because when you do that, you'll find that there's some good advice and lessons to be learned from here.