When people have a problem, it's very, very frustrating for somebody to show up and disagree — as if that person couldn't figure out that he can save files outs

When people have a problem, it's very, very frustrating for somebody to show up and disagree — as if that person couldn't figure out that he can save files outside the Dropbox directory — clearly that's not what he freaking wants and what isn't a big deal for your usage patterns might be a big deal to somebody else. StackOverflow is filled with such answers. Which is why many people ask questions defensively, also mentioning the alternatives that they don't want to do. If I were to ask this as a StackOverflow question, I'd do it like ... How can I make Dropbox ignore certain files from syncing? Is there some sort of .dropboxignore mechanism? PS: I don't want to save files outside Dropbox's directory, I do want to synchronize my projects on Dropbox and lets assume for the sake of argument that I know what I'm doing. (at which point I'd realize that I'm becoming aggressive and that I probably answered my own question, therefore closing the browser window in frustration)