While the help you get in these forums is not seen everywhere, there are huge disadvantages of participating in a "developper" forum. They are talented in one aspect of computing but most developpers lack the social skills, the humor, the patience and the punani which would make them interact like normal human beings. I can hear some of them get mad at this and will seek revenge by trolling my next threads but that's all you do because your life revolves around here.

Edit: Obviously not everyone