Newbie Creation Suggestions

[christyf5]

The Newbie Creation forum (don't ask me about the name, I don't get it either ) was originally a place for articles to reside for newbies. It quickly became a place for "newbies" to post. But very few "experienced" reefers would hang out there as they weren't "newbies". Previously I have seen threads go for days in there without a response. As the reef forum gets the most traffic we had hoped that people would just post in the reef forum with their questions and those that browsed that forum could answer them. Many people don't use the "new posts since last visit" button and only visit certain forums they are interested in and miss out on "newbie" threads they could give experienced advice to.

I understand the intimidation factor of posting "newbie" questions on a reef board but you have to remember that if you don't post forum where the "experienced" reefers hang out, what kind of answers will you get from those hanging out in the newbie forum?

[titus]

Hello,

-Create a new forum for articles called….well….”Articles Forum”.

Christy is working on this at the moment.

-Change the name of the Newbie Creation Forum to just “Newbie Forum”, (I never did understand the word Creation in that title, if I may be so bold as to admit that), and open it up again to the members for posting questions. (I can’t speak for other CanReefers but I think others might agree with me on this).

As Christy said, it's best if the questions are posted in the Reef forum as that gets the most traffic. We are trying to come up with a forum that contains useful articles but as Christy said, it quickly became a question/answer forum which should have been taking place in the Reef forum. So now Christy is trying hard (from what I know ) to gather good articles and place it in a new forum.

Titus

[StirCrazy]

I am going to have to agree with Titus and Christy, having a second area for newbies to ask questions is kinda silly as you will be getting replies from newbies on newbie questions. I think I was one of the original people who complained when the newbie forum (which was supposed to be an article area) turned into a second Q&A area. when you read every post it becomes a pain to have to search two different areas for the same kinda stuff so I just quit reading in the newbie area. so simply put Questions about reefing, Should be in the reef area.

Steve

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by titus

Hello,

Quote: (Johnny Reefer wrote):

-Create a new forum for articles called….well….”Articles Forum”.

Christy is working on this at the moment.

Is this still in the works or has it been shelved?

Thanx much and cheers,

[Aquattro]

Mark, it is still in the works, and from my understanding, not far off now.

[christyf5]

Yep still workin on it. Its a bit bigger than I had originally planned

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

Mark, it is still in the works, and from my understanding, not far off now.

Is this the one you told me was there?

Steve

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

Is this the one you told me was there?

Steve

Yup, I can see it, so it is there. We just blocked you from seeing it.