This argument seems to boil down to, "Hey, I had to go through hell to find this stuff out, so there's no way I'm helping anyone else find it out easier! Let them go through what I went through!"
I think he rather meant that he liked to have this sort of mentor-pupil relationship IC in stead of on the forums, which does make sense but I think it'd just be a lot more convenient to have this info available OOC.
