Eh, I upvoted your answer and a couple of those critical of the OP. I think there is room for both attitudes and different people will be helped in different measures by each. Tough love is all that works with some. The only thing I downvoted was-

Thanks, but I wait till someone who uderstands the purpose of hashes comes along and gives me the appropriate syntax.

And if I were allowed to spend more than one vote downvoting that, I surely would have.