It's a shame the shoot has been cancelled. It's a commendable effort to do an outing for free and and at one's own time and effort.
But I do need to add in. I was curious and decided to read the link by Ellesar. I have to say it caught me totally by surprise. The initial details sounded very nice and everything was going fine. But if you read the first post carefully, there was no mention at all that participants have to put down the names themselves. In fact, the first few did not do it and the organizer did it for them without reminding others they have to DIY. It was only in a later post that he mentioned to DIY. Then it took just one more participant who didn't do it (I believe totally unintentional) and suddenly, the organizer blew up and cancelled the whole thing. That was really drastic.
Therefore, I don't see any basis to call the interested participants lazy and being spoonfed. The instructions were not properly laid out. The last person could have read the first post, scrolled quickly to the bottom and signed up. How was he spoilt or wanted to be spoonfed?
I know how tough it can be to organize something for free. I have done a large scale group together (non-photography) involving more than 100 people. It was totally unpaid. But one must accept screw ups can and will happen. You may meet some difficult people (hopefully not too many) or people who don't follow instructions carefully but based on their actions, I can vouch most of the time, it was unintentional.
I feel if one wants to be magnanimous to organize something for free, then the organizer has to really be positive looking, able to take stress, decisive and let go when things turn out a bit unexpected. It's certainly not easy. But if you have limited patience/tolerance, or short fuse/temper, then I think it's better not to do such free outings. Cos while you wish to share your expertise, the quick-to-anger part of you will want to bite quickly whenever you detect someone trying to take advantage of you, even if it is unintentional.
Certainly, the architectural photo-outing incident is not due to people wanting to be spoonfed. Just my 2 cents.
And btw, don't blatantly label Singaporeans as lazy just because of this. How do you know they are Singaporeans? Even if they are, like I said, I feel it's more of lack of proper communication and the organizer blowing up unexpectedly.