Hello fellow coffee "cornerers",
I know this has been discussed to bits, there have been threads and blogs all over SDN. What am I referring to? The state of the forums of SDN, or rather the inability of some of its members to make relevant posts. I don't know why I decided to start a new thread on this topic as there already are several of them, I am probably venting some frustration after spending some time on the forums lately. Apologies for this, and the moderators are welcome to delete this thread if they wish, with no hard feelings on my side.
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but is it really that difficult to read the rules before you post? Is it really that difficult to understand that you're not entitled to an answer just because you want one? Is it really that difficult to try and give as much detailed information as possible in your post to your fellow SDN members in order to help them help you? Is it really, is it really... The list can be made endless.
If I had a pound for every time that I have seen a thread with the exact same response over and over again.... If I read a thread and there is already an answer, unless I can contribute further and actually add value to the information already provided, I will not reply! What on Gods green earth posesses people to just reply over and over again with the same thing, causing the thread to be bumped up the queue and thus pushing newer threads down? If it has been answered, let it go!! If the initiator needs more info, he or she will ask for it. Where has common sense gone?? Not to mention the posts with answers completely irrelevant or with answers on such a high level that you might as well not have bothered replying in the first place. Is this just an attempt to collect points? I could go on and on with examples, but I don't need to as you all know them just as well as I do, if not better.
Myself, as others, remember the time when SDN was a place where you could find information and talk to fellow developers and exchange ideas. A time when you were able to find an answer to something, without having to traverse through 1000000000000 of utterly useless repetitive threads, and responses to threads, before you actually found what you were looking for!
As I said, I apologize for this again, I really just needed to vent out some frustration. I don't mean to start another argument or ruin peoples day, but the forums seem to be overrun by members that I can only describe as forum trolls! I know that statement might stir up some emotion, but right now I have no other way of describing them!
And there seems to be no improvement in sight! I've been running ideas through my head as to what we could do to improve the situation, but I'm not sure what could be done. Part of me wishes to reply to some of these threads asking people not to add the same information again and again as it just clutters up the forums. Maybe that is what is needed, for members of the forum to speak to other members and try to stop this. Not ideal, but it might work.
Dion