~3% of people playing this game post on the forums, the world forums are generally used for LS recruitment and things like that. I hate that people /sh in Uldah for an hour and then complain that no one helps anyone in this game. Have you made any friends by helping someone else? Have you shown the initiative to look for an LS on Lodestone to join? I know about 1/4 of the people on my server, maybe more, because I have helped or have been helped by many. People just want things given to them or people to do things for them, they need to wake up. When I walk out of my inn when I first log in to Uldah, when I'm sitting around thinking what I want to do today, I'm looking at the /sh channel, if I see a /sh that interests me or someone that I know needs help then that's what I'll do. I always laugh when I see two people /sh'n for two similar things like AF body fights "@3/8", if the two leaders would get together they could have one party and just knock both quests out together, but they would rather sit there and /sh for another hour then disband because they couldn't get enough people.

tl;dr
When the community gets smarter it will get better, until then there will be people that get/give help and those that don't