General Rant....

[BigRAWesty]

Is it possible to reconfigure a newbies home page so its more beginner friendly. so a few of the more common categories are there, Explaining how to use the search function, and a bit of a speal about researching first before jumping in and posting away.

Kallen Westbrook
Owner of
Westy's Accessories

[Sir Roofy]

The best part of this forum is trying to understand what they need to know how to help
and point them in the right direction,as been said not everyone can drive a computer
im one whos not real good at it,but i chose to stay and find my way round maybe they will too
does it realy matter how many times the same question pops up its numours ppl with the same question
they didnt know that its been asked countless times and as a forum we try to help

[NissanGQ4.2]

I read a newbies comment on FB how he introduced himself and got 50 odd replies, but when he asked a question it got none. A simple search and he would have had a answer, instead he got frustrated due to not getting a reply..

Is that on our Facebook page? I can't say I ever go there. Hmmm should have a look I suppose.

Kallen,

x2 with Darren, was that on our FB page? I don't recall seeing it if it was.

Kallen, someone could post up and intro and get a heap of replies, then they could post up a Q that gets 0 replies and this could be for many reasons

1) Threads can get missed, I believe I miss a lot of new thread when someone sits in the intro section and welcomes in new members all in a space of 20 mins. I have been slack in welcoming in new members as I have been busy in the background doing other things when I am on here and I love knowing that new members are being welcomed into our family, but there are days I wish Andy would block all intro posts form being displayed when you click on "whats new". I have spoke to Andy previously about this as one night I think about 3 pages of whats new was intro's!

2) Wrong Title for thread: The amount of times I have seen a thread title named wrong....for example, do u remember one you done "I'm Employing" most people not looking for work would not of looked at this thread but in your thread you were actually looking for Product Testers. You might of got more hits at first if it was titled correctly..........and no I'm not having a shot at you......


Searching on this forum is a bit of hit and miss, I think this is because most people do not Tag there threads, I find threads that are tagged with keywords are more easier found by the search/

I know it can be annoying at times when a thread asking the same question is asked on more than one occasion, but I would take a guess that at least 65-70% of members on here asking the same questions are of the older generation and not computer literate, hence why I don't mind re posting something I have said or pointing them in the right direction..............yes there will always be that small percentage that are to lazy to search, but hey you get that on the big jobs

[BigRAWesty]

Sorry it wasn't in the forums fb page, but a members.
And good point about the headings, it does make a difference.

Kallen Westbrook
Owner of
Westy's Accessories

[fracster]

One thing we did on a photography forum I use was to put a couple of stickies in the introduction section, one of them was a thread explaining how to use the search function, just a thought guys.

[NissanGQ4.2]

One thing we did on a photography forum I use was to put a couple of stickies in the introduction section, one of them was a thread explaining how to use the search function, just a thought guys.

Good point, I didn't even realise there wasn't one there, will have to do that......added to the list

[threedogs]

Mine is a small vent rather than a rant,listen carefully I'm only typing this once.
Why the hell do people hook out to the right just before they turn left PPPPPs me off big time
Thats it all good again

[my third 256]

Mine is a small vent rather than a rant,listen carefully I'm only typing this once.
Why the hell do people hook out to the right just before they turn left PPPPPs me off big time
Thats it all good again

so what are you realy saying threedogs

[Bob]

Mine is a small vent rather than a rant,listen carefully I'm only typing this once.
Why the hell do people hook out to the right just before they turn left PPPPPs me off big time
Thats it all good again

With you on that one TD

[wildgu6]

Mine is a small vent rather than a rant,listen carefully I'm only typing this once.
Why the hell do people hook out to the right just before they turn left PPPPPs me off big time
Thats it all good again

X2 TD, maybe they think they're rally drivers


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