Fidonet sysops don't suffer fools at all. Most will show you around quickly and answer a few questions, but you aren't paying them for this. You, in fact, are part of their hobby world. And then insulting half the people in their message bases. A kinder, gentler cyberworld it ain't, folks.
Online services are businesses.
The Internet is an anarchic democracy, ostensibly under the rule of the National Science Foundation. Fidonet is, mostly, a dictatorship of the proletariat. You, as a home computer user, are not even part of the proletariat. You are the peasants, for whom the proletariat toil. You benefit from this relationship.