At 8/23/04 01:53 PM, Dobio wrote:
At 8/21/04 01:29 PM, BonusStage wrote:
1. When people come in here and ask their questions, EVEN if it has been asked a million times before, try to give them the best answer you can
WRONG. You link them to the search engine, and hope that they will stop asking questions that have already been answered. Most of the time, being snide and arrogant will make them stop posting threads asking questions.
Everyone on this forum, wiht member or not, has a different style and approach to most questions. I personally would rather answer a question or ignore it than say to search. Besides, others (like Joe) have often already said to search.
2. In those question threads, if an answer has already been posted, make sure you only provide information that expands on the previous answer, don't come in a say the exact same thing AGAIN, because that is looked down upon.
WRONG again. All WI/HT wannabe members must increase their post count, and show that they are responsible enough to know the answer, even though the answer was posted TEN MINUTES before someone else posted. Hence why all threads have to be locked in this stupid forum, because all the wannabes are like, "OMG I'M GOING TO SAY EXACTLY WHAT WAS SAID ABOVE ME, BECAUSE I WANT TO SHOW THAT I'M ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN THIS FORUM SO I GET NOMINATED!!!!"
Yeah, now there you have a good point, and it's kinda sad.
Most fucking annoying thing. Personally, WI/HT Lounge should be locked, because it's the same people posting in it, congratulating everyone, even though it's just a big plea, with the exception of a few, to continue to raise post count and raise page numbers. WI/HT Level up Lounge is just as bad as the Muffin Club, IMO.
The Muffin Club, AFAIK, isn't a group of people sitting in a huge lounge amidst a ton of noob question threads and trying to keep sane between rounds of the 1000th time a b/p question and the 5000th time a "HOW DO I DEPOSIT" question are asked.
level up! serves a greater purpose than the Muffin Club. No offense to the Muffin Club. And thus, that's why it's not locked. Without it, I suspect a lot of the regular users who come here and often DO help with new users' questions would stop hanging around, and would that be good or bad for NG? I dunno, you probably have your own view on that, but this forum was CREATED to field such newbie questions, and thus it's good to have many regulars here to answer them, now isn't it? Therefore, it's the site's best interest.
Now, if liljim or Wade decides the "cost" of another huge-ass thread is not worth it, then so be it. I can't speak for everyone else, but this would still be my home on NG BBS, primarily. Even if the list threads were all gone AND level up! as well. But it's much more enjoyable with them here. I think your entire perspective on Wi/Ht? has been soured by your experience with your own top posters topic here and high-rate posters like Pure.
Some of us have lives. Sorry, but I find nothing entertaining with sitting on the portal all day and waiting for movies to come through. I'd rather post, and even then, I'd rather do other stuff.
Says the man nearing 12,000 posts. O_o
