njcajun
01-19-2001, 03:59 PM
Showing that Sensei is a man ahead of his time, Sensei posted this about a year ago --> http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000437.html
It was about whether General Linux Questions should be turned into a newbie forum.
I don't know if that's viable, because it'll disorient some of the newbies coming in and make them feel all lowly and stuff, which is exactly what LNO is NOT about.
However, a year and 5000 users later, maybe it's still not a great idea, but I think some of us are at the point where maybe ADDING an ADVANCED user forum might be ok. The perception would be totally different - the newbies would never really have reason to go in there, and would know it on sight.
I think it would help in a couple of ways:
1) more advanced users would be able to recognize eachother as such, which is good.
2) we won't have to sift through all the crazy newbie posts to help eachother out, which would probably mean faster replies to the harder questions.
3) we won't have to worry about our 'new topic' disappearing off the page after 25 newbies post about how kppp is fscked up.
4) The 'pipeline' concept from the linked post above will be practiced (I liked that concept), and it won't be real obvious to anyone who is an advanced user and who's not. There would be no virtual segregation amongst the users.
What does everyone else think?
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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it.
It was about whether General Linux Questions should be turned into a newbie forum.
I don't know if that's viable, because it'll disorient some of the newbies coming in and make them feel all lowly and stuff, which is exactly what LNO is NOT about.
However, a year and 5000 users later, maybe it's still not a great idea, but I think some of us are at the point where maybe ADDING an ADVANCED user forum might be ok. The perception would be totally different - the newbies would never really have reason to go in there, and would know it on sight.
I think it would help in a couple of ways:
1) more advanced users would be able to recognize eachother as such, which is good.
2) we won't have to sift through all the crazy newbie posts to help eachother out, which would probably mean faster replies to the harder questions.
3) we won't have to worry about our 'new topic' disappearing off the page after 25 newbies post about how kppp is fscked up.
4) The 'pipeline' concept from the linked post above will be practiced (I liked that concept), and it won't be real obvious to anyone who is an advanced user and who's not. There would be no virtual segregation amongst the users.
What does everyone else think?
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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it.