Morgano opened this issue on Jul 21, 2007 · 85 posts
Morgano posted Mon, 23 July 2007 at 5:48 PM
Miragebay said *Just a thought...how about a new forum entitled "Newbie Questions" or something similar? That way, those who want to be helpful can, and those who don't want to bother reading don't have to?
Since we know the questions will continue to be asked, at least they could all be posted in the same place;)
*I can see your point, but...
(Warning: slight flippancy here) ... I don't think that that would work. Actually, it might make things worse. I don't see any advantage in splitting up Poser threads in this way. After all, the implication is that the most likely people to be on the "Newbie Questions" forum would be people who considered themselves to be "newbies", so they might struggle to get their questions answered. Would the moderators define who was and who wasn't a newbie and expel unsuitable posts from the main Poser forum? And is a "newbie question" one that is asked by a newbie (in which case, who decides whether the questioner is a newbie?) or one that conforms to the type of question expected to be asked by a "newbie" (in which case, any member of the forum could be named and shamed by having his/her closet newbiedom exposed and the errant question sent into newbie exile)?
I think that my solution is best. If one knows the answer, or thinks one does, one should supply it. It takes just about as long to refuse an answer (service with a snarl) as to give it. If somebody really hasn't the time to batter out a couple of sentences on his/her keyboard, what is the point of visiting here?*