hi,
well, I can imagine, that you developers are really fed up with that kind of behavior. i really do understand. people can be very, very stupid, and many of them are very, very lazy, and many of them have this attitude of just weeping a little and expecting everybody to come to their rescue ... :? people are just strange. at least i have to admit, that i don't understand them.
perhaps the signing up page could be treating the newcomers with the right deal of obligation and information. like all fields being obligatory and having a small text associated with each field like (for the compiler):
"if you want to program with C or C++ you need to have a so called compiler for those languages installed.
the compiler is a program which transforms your source code into a running program. for any help you request
in this forum the developers need to know which compiler you have installed, and which version of it."
OK, it is not your job to tell people these kind of basics, but imagine how much redundant work will be saved by giving the newbies this little of information right from the start and obliging them to look up the required information before they can get an account in the forum ...
well, you certainly have more pressing and interesting matters to spend the day. I myself don't have the slightest idea of turning this into a web site, so i won't blame anybody ...
regards and thank you for all the good work put into this IDE. It really helps me a lot in this hobby of mine, and I learned quite a bit just using it and having to understand how it works and why it works as it does.
greetings from asturias
frithjofh