Eugene

I'm with you on the 2-step process (except I have a step before step #1 - try stuff yourself first). We get a lot of repeats over on StackOverflow which has a nice way of handling repeat questions. On other forums it takes me 10 "valuable" seconds to point them to a link of someone else with the same question getting it answered, or sometimes I give them the answer if it's simple enough. My son wanted to learn to mod Minecraft. Searching gave me this result: https://codakid.com/guide-to-minecraft-modding-with-java/ Following the tutorial on there, I was setting up my son's computer using Eclipse. I'm a seasoned developer of 20 years, but I use mainly VS and sometimes Intellij. I'm not well versed in Eclipse. I ran into the same issue as the OP and thanks to his/her post, I found the cause of the issue. It may be trivial to you, but not to me or any other beginner in Forge + Eclipse modding. I've spent 30 minutes so far troubleshooting and searching for a good tutorial for setting up Eclipse with Forge. Many results point to the old way when the Forge folder was the mod folder, but based on what I've read, that's changed yet there's no good walkthrough for setting it up. Perhaps it's not your intent but when you say "making people who are really in need of the forum unable to find help" you're diminishing the legitimacy of their question. It's implying they're not really in need. They may just be getting started. Realize that not everyone is as good at articulating their question into a search or forum post. If we come off as dismissive to people who are trying to learn and get started, we're going to turn them away from their desire to learn and be creative and add to our community. I wouldn't want that for my son, just as I wouldn't want that for anyone else trying to give development a shot.

"Please do your research before posting here." is rude. The OP's question in itself is an act of research. "Please do your research before posting here" is not a fact. It's an imperative. The OP comes here asking for help and he is being told to "do your research." Get over yourselves. If you don't want to be helpful then what are you doing here besides berating people? Or is this forum only for the "elite"?