After wandering around on a few other forums I've noticed something that alot of them are implementing that seems to me like a good idea. We get ALOT of new threads opened with the same question over and over again, understandably its quite frustrating for senior members and staff. However alot of people seem to be very harsh with new members about this. I FULLY agree that the search function needs to be used and new members need to read posting rules and guidelines first. However we don't live in a perfect world and there will always be plenty of people that just post.
What if we made a new thread (I was thinking mainly for recruiting) that is JUST for Q&A and sticky it. Someone can post a question someone else can answer it if its been answered 10000000000 times and someone feels grouchy and doesn't want to answer again, then they don't have to and at the same time don't have to post and rain hell on that new member. It would also build into another "good read" for people with questions. In my opinion that could result in all these new threads being contained to 1 thread sort of containing the virus so to speak, making it the Q&A superthread while still keeping something for people to respond to because lets face it no one posting is kinda boring.
I also think it might ease new members into the idea of searching and NOT making new threads instead of getting there head ripped off. Alot of members get pretty angry, sometimes downright insulting with the way they tell people to use the search function. If we are scaring away new members before they even get into the site it won't help us grow as a community in the end.
Thoughts, pros-cons all input is appreciated I'm hoping it will be a discussion on the idea
What if we made a new thread (I was thinking mainly for recruiting) that is JUST for Q&A and sticky it. Someone can post a question someone else can answer it if its been answered 10000000000 times and someone feels grouchy and doesn't want to answer again, then they don't have to and at the same time don't have to post and rain hell on that new member. It would also build into another "good read" for people with questions. In my opinion that could result in all these new threads being contained to 1 thread sort of containing the virus so to speak, making it the Q&A superthread while still keeping something for people to respond to because lets face it no one posting is kinda boring.
I also think it might ease new members into the idea of searching and NOT making new threads instead of getting there head ripped off. Alot of members get pretty angry, sometimes downright insulting with the way they tell people to use the search function. If we are scaring away new members before they even get into the site it won't help us grow as a community in the end.
Thoughts, pros-cons all input is appreciated I'm hoping it will be a discussion on the idea