Hi all long time no see
I agree with Israr,
May good users have dissappeared for a long
time. But i wonder if they are just busy else where in life/work or
have left due to forum quality.
Personally i used to love reading this forum in the morning, but now
its become like reading emails, a zillion junk posts vs the 1 good post.
It was a great way to learn new approaches to modelling even if a
certain problem doesnt directly fit into your field of expertise. Now
it just takes much longer to get to the "good stuff".
Maybe it would be possible to,
a) Ban new users from posting for the 1st 2week's of account creation
b) block posts with key words in the subject. ie, "HELP"
c) block key words in posts.
d) Charge for the forum. If i can rememeber that far back proecentral
was a paid forum, which had 100th of the duplicate, unstructured,
un-searched for posts as we do here. This cost can be a trival amount
but i beleive it would filter out serious posters vs 1 hit wonders.
I don't think its a good idea to lable people as "noob posters" as this
deters people from posting questions, there is nothing wrong with
posting a simple question to a basic problem if a person requires help
with it. But it is a assumption that people would have looked up there
help files and search the forum before posting the problem at hand.
You have to remember we all started without a pro-e clue at some
stage. I know i was thown in the deep end with no support from my work
at the time. I'am sure that without the help from some really nice
people here i wouldn't know a fraction of what i do now. By the same
token i'd like to think i've also re-contributed and helped others in
the same way that i was helped.
Ofcourse forum edicat is the true key to keep things flowing nicely between people whom need help and are keen to help.
Just my 2c.
I agree with Israr,
May good users have dissappeared for a long
time. But i wonder if they are just busy else where in life/work or
have left due to forum quality.
Personally i used to love reading this forum in the morning, but now
its become like reading emails, a zillion junk posts vs the 1 good post.
It was a great way to learn new approaches to modelling even if a
certain problem doesnt directly fit into your field of expertise. Now
it just takes much longer to get to the "good stuff".
Maybe it would be possible to,
a) Ban new users from posting for the 1st 2week's of account creation
b) block posts with key words in the subject. ie, "HELP"
c) block key words in posts.
d) Charge for the forum. If i can rememeber that far back proecentral
was a paid forum, which had 100th of the duplicate, unstructured,
un-searched for posts as we do here. This cost can be a trival amount
but i beleive it would filter out serious posters vs 1 hit wonders.
I don't think its a good idea to lable people as "noob posters" as this
deters people from posting questions, there is nothing wrong with
posting a simple question to a basic problem if a person requires help
with it. But it is a assumption that people would have looked up there
help files and search the forum before posting the problem at hand.
You have to remember we all started without a pro-e clue at some
stage. I know i was thown in the deep end with no support from my work
at the time. I'am sure that without the help from some really nice
people here i wouldn't know a fraction of what i do now. By the same
token i'd like to think i've also re-contributed and helped others in
the same way that i was helped.
Ofcourse forum edicat is the true key to keep things flowing nicely between people whom need help and are keen to help.
Just my 2c.