newbies tend to be hard-headed. they want to make money fast and easy and they want to believe that they can do it by opening a teen tgp with a free script on a virtual account i've been paid in the past by a couple newbs who spent over $100,000 on their paysites and in the end lost money even thought it would have been easy to turn things around - if they hadn't been so deeply invested in their vision.

as far as the rest, i think you have it backward. every time i ask for an opinion of a graphic or page on a board, everyone wants to tell me how great it is. never mind that what i really want is the stuff i should fix so i can make more money. several guys on this board have asked for honest opinions and everyone said "oooo! it's great! i love it!" even though on icq they said to me they didn't really like it. the end result? the guys were confused when their sites didn't make money because EVERYONE had said their sites were great work.

so what i hear the most isn't people ignoring advice - it's people who don't want to hurt their feelings being less than honest.