by mofisto » Mon Sep 02, 2002 12:48 pm
Well I believe this has been posted about 8000 times now. Everyone is getting fed up wtih newbies asking retarded questions. While I understand that everyone's level of technical and softwarelogical(if thats a word) is different, I agree this is becoming an epidemic. Though I haven't really heard of any good ideas that are not demeaning towards new members or out right discriminatory. I have heard everything from while signing up, members have to take a quiz to gauge their level of expertise, or mandating quizes to enter the forum. I have heard making the guides part of the required reading to sign up. I have also many times said that the guide links on new member pages should be hideously oversized so as to mess of new members login page so they have no choice but to read the guides. Or even locking access to the forums until they have read the guides. I am in favor of all of these. But even if all of these measure are implimented it won't stop people. Just means these newbies have to click a few more times to bother us. My favorite of course would be to create a group of more elite members and create a forum for them so that they can discuss their problems, ideas, and whatnot in peace without having to endure the babble that spills forth from my keyboard and like 20000 other members.
- "People disappear all the time. Why don't they reappear? FEAR"