I'll grant you that a reply calling me on being on the asshole side of the fence being downvoted, and a dickish post getting upvotes kinda sucks.

That said, I don't subscribe at all to "I tried hard so tell me I did well". Like I said, I would have loved to see something the guy had written.

One thing that /really/ pisses me off though if trying to give advice you're not qualified to. It's dangerous and destructived. If you were trying to quickly knock something up and this guy told you that "CodeIgniter is the web framework for PHP" and then you burned days on it, would you be pleased?