Thread: enough already

Well, Lagunagirl, you do have a point there. But there's another reason: forums get cluttered because of these posts and it gets harder to find stuff.

The Newbie forum is bound to get cluttered anyway, especially with intro posts. So I don't really see how the cluttering of re-hashed questions in the newbie forum bothers anyone...

I have to agree with spockman. The Newbie Zone is made just for those immediate questions and introductions. Now, if there are people with a few posts already, still asking questions there, then I could get annoyed.

How are we supposed to get involved if we aren't allowed to ask these questions? We haven't been here long enough to just chat and we don't know enough to advise other people. If these questions weren't allowed then you'd be making it a very exclusive club for the long term members and very short term lurkers.

One thing I will agree with that I've read is saying thank you, I don't think I've thanked anyone who has posted on my threads and I will correct that.

I have also been a little unclear on whether I should post threads in the newbie zone or attaining lucidity because I have been aware that some of my experiences may be similar to others. However I don't want to be stuck in the newbie zone forever.

I understand it might be a bit monotonous for some people but nothing's perfect. Take the good with the bad and eventually us noobs will blossom into useful contributing members.

Read.
I am talking about the most simple of the simple here. Search for your question, read what's out there. THEN ask a question, if it hasn't been answered.

cream cheese!


this is a bump!

because it would be lame and retarded if at this point we forget about this thread? :b

is there any mod around to give a final say, yes or no to these ideas?

So what if newbies ask basic questions and don't pay attention to the posts and just ask anyway and don't say thank you! Think of them as children and potentially accomplished SQ3R's one day. I committed the offense of posting a question of the sort you rail against, but I just did it out of enthusiasm and because I haven't had a chance to assimilate the bewildering maze here (or memorize abbreviations).

From the programming perspective it would be very easy to use some extra PHP to display some text for users that have under a certain number of posts...right above the wysiwyg editor while creating a new topic.

The text should call the users attention to the stickied posts and FAQ and emphasize that if the topic they are trying to create is a question that can possibly be answered by FAQ, stickies or search they need to check first.

Should be really easy to do in vbulletin. Could do this for all new posts as well.

[Edit] Should note it's probably impossible to shut all of these types of posts down and I'm not sure terrorizing us noobs works well either but with a modification like above and things like the FAQ someone mentioned it should be possible to cut these posts down to a minimum.