razorback wrote:Just BS Slow. Some people are more interested in raising their post numbers than in helping folks build TDs.
Internet points are all the rage right now. There's a reason that "gamification" is even a real word. I think there is a large crowd of accomplished builders and I think the novelty of helping a large crowd of new builders can get old after a while. I don't fault them for not wanting to answer the same question over and over again. It's all in the forum. On the other side of that. It can be hard for us new kids figure out which posts have pertinent information. There is a LOT of info here scattered about in build threads, advice threads, blog threads, etc. and since there is no formal tagging or categorizing comments inside a thread it can be hard to find the. Sort of like looking for that picture of your cousin inside the file box of photos. You know about how deep down it will be but it's still a daunting task. I have found some of the best advice to problems I was facing in threads that were totally unrelated. I wouldn't have found it if I had been trying to search for it.
Forums, in general, are a dying breed. I try to teach my students about the true value of communities like this but it's a challenge because they are used to places like Facebook and Reddit and Imgur. Blah Blah Blah.