I have to agree with the majority here...speaking of percentages.
I for one, am a better person from the things I have learned here, including how to buck the odds and becoming MORE than I ever could have imagined. I think that is true of most LBS guys.
Through this process for them. it also becomes a process for us. A two-for-one special so to speak.
What some of us learn-unfortunatly- is the ability to become paralyzed within ourselves on the boards. And we obtain so many new skills but yet forget the one that means the most.....Hope.
We forget how to trust ourselves too. Our opinions DO become jaded, and our outlook goes down the proverbial crapper and we become cynical in our interactions here.
I , for one, have no need to tell a person desperatly searching for an answer, that they should give up before they waste thier time trying.
Better or worse.....I'll be one of the 3 and let whomever sort out who wants to be the other 97......