How someone has come to obtain knowledge, skill and experience is generally offered very little respect any more. Greed and a general lack of consideration for others pervades and "they" want what you have, regardless of how hard you may have worked for it. I see it as being no different than an addict robbing his grandmother of her paltry life's savings to blow on a single "night out." It is really a pretty savage attitude.
I could understand someone having made an effort by acquiring any of the completely free guides offered by the powder companies and looking up every article they could find and THEN asking about personal experiences relating to which powders have worked better for you. To a degree. I've burned a LOT of powder over the years, set off a LOT of primers and sent a lot of projectiles through targets (lots of time and money) to earn the knowledge I have on the topic. I'm always willing to share, but a greedy grab makes me really stingy really quickly.
A similar attitude: I still use a blackboard at school - with real chalk. When I start a class, I start drawing on that board. I evolve the concept verbally and visually and it's this PROCESS - the metamorphosis of the concept from "blank slate" to something seemingly digestible, which is key in making the point. I EXPECT anyone who cares about learning to go to the trouble of replicating, with pencil and paper, what I go to the trouble of putting up there myself. At the end of the class, I erase it all and start over for the next class, up to five times per day.
A week or so ago, a young man walks up front after class and holds his phone up to take a picture of the board. "Oh, no you don't!" I made him put the phone away and I explained that I am sharing personal intellectual property for the sake of his being able to make a very good living for the rest of his life and that he was going to WORK for it. I could as easily draw it all once and hand out a piece of paper or post it on the course page, but then he (anyone) would give it a casual glance and miss all the detail and not appreciate how it all came to be. If HE had to work for it the way I worked for it, he would HAVE TO capture all the minor details to replicate it manually on paper. I was pretty ticked off about the lack of regard for the effort, but he did surprise me and acknowledged that it made sense. He sat down and drew it all himself.
