What's the deal?

Seeing this was the advanced forum I thought I would see more ADVANCED questions. It seems to me that most of the questions could be answered with a five minute web search, the "teams" tutorials, or a Photoshop Wow book. No offense but come on, everyone wants crystals and cool textures but they are everywhere, in every tutorial on any website that deals with Photoshop. Why have a new to PS and an advanced section, when the same questions are being asked in each forum?

first off, take a look at some of the threads. They've been started by people who are relativley new to this board. That happens when people are new. They post in the wrong sections.

Also, a topic that may seem really easy to you may be an advanced topic for someone else... my $0.02

i don't really see a difference either to be honest. i usually just randomly throw the questions in one or the other... unless it's like "how does the eraser tool work" then it's obviously in the new to photoshop forum.