I can't stand it anymore

Just had to drop everything to respond to a jerk on RGP. I've already posted there, but this is an issue I feel strongly about, and I want to make sure that at least a few people see it before it gets buried in the mountains of spam. Below are the posts in question, with my response at the very end:

On Jan 27 2005 1:01 PM, BKimbler wrote:
Last night at a low limit home game.... I get AQs in SB with 3 of us left in the game. Button calls the .50 blind.... I raise to $1.50 and BB calls. Button raises all in making the bet $2.25 to me - I call and so does BB.
Was it wrong for me to call that?
The flop comes Q T 8... I raise all in for $15. I am promptly called by J9o and J9s diamonds... Needless to say, one makes the Straight and the other makes a Flush... i'm out.
How would you have played it? Checked on it... HELP!

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On Jan 27 2005 1:24 PM, BostonJD wrote:
You lost under $20.00 on a slightly bad beat... If that is so perplexing that you have to post about it on the internet, maybe you should be playing Yahtzee?

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On Jan 27 2005 1:32 PM, BKimbler wrote:
I am trying to improve as a player... No one in my poker circle will up the ante so, i'm stucking playing $5 buy-in and I'm not mad about losing $$, i'm wondering if I played it wrong.
What i'm perplexed about is why you have to be an asshole with your answer?

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On Jan 27 2005 2:40 PM, evilbilly wrote:
Now that's a good question that deserves a response. People get on here bitching about spam and bad beat stories all the damn time, but as soon as someone asks a poker question, they jump all over him, either calling him an idiot or saying his question isn't worthy of a serious response because there wasn't enough money involved.
Note to the RGP community: If you are really concerned about the decline of the newsgroup, try reaching out to the few players who get on here with poker-related questions, instead of bashing them over the head for daring to ask a question that is "beneath" you. Every time you post a smart-ass response to someone who is at least trying to engage in a discussion about the game, you're stifling others from getting involved and ceding yet another inch of content to the spammers.
The hostility that many posters display toward new players is an arrogance that can perhaps be afforded at the present, but which will ultimately cost us all. Someday, poker will no longer be the "hot thing" and new players, who we all require to help our profit margins, will be harder to come by. Insulting and embarrassing new players will do nothing to promote the game, and it certainly won't improve the poker discussion on RGP.

ADDENDUM: Well, I attempted to drop everything and put this on this afternoon. Unfortunately, Blogger decided to crap out and not publish, a tendency it has developed over the past week. Oh well, better late than never.