Newbie season upon us aka zero system info
Fellow DUC'ers:
Seen quite a few threads here the last couple of days with new posters who give little or no system info whether in the question being asked or on their profile pages. People with maybe one or two posts. Seems endemic at this time of year as people get new computers or are new to PT. I know this has been railed about before but why does it keep repeating like a bad meal? I know one suggested remedy is that new posters have to read the 'Help Us To Help You' before they can post. I'd like to suggest a couple of other remedies: how about having a mandatory section that must be filled out with system info? Another is like some forums do with new posters is to have a certain number of posts vetted by a moderator before the post appears on the forum? This way a moderator can check that there's proper system info given before said post goes live. |
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Not a bad idea at all:rolleyes: Maybe Avid could change the header so Help Us Help You shows up in blazing red and fills the top of the screen(maybe add a menacing sound:p:p)
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It's like death and taxes - around this time of year we get way too many first time posters here who can't be bothered to even give system info when asking for help. |
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I don't think restrictions and regulations is the answer to this problem. People are lazy, and it takes a while for newbies get a grip on the way things work here on the forum. But most of them eventually do.
Is it a season thing? I never thought of that… Young newcomers looking for easy, quick solutions… they will always keep comming. We should keep the DUC open and unrestricted as it is, and we old-timers try not to get so annoyed. |
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I simply ignore those threads.
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I'm not saying to have a closed forum but that a certain amount of info should be present before people ask for help. Like I said there are plenty of forums that the first few times someone posts their posts have to be vetted - why can't that happen here? There's even one forum where even long time posters have their posts vetted before appearing on their forum. |
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And it's not so much about us presenting info as them presenting said info to us. Merry Christmas |
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Tell me about it... I have posted countless "Please read the Help Us Help You document linked to the forum header" posts because people think we can read thoughts :P
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Musicman gets the Nostradamus award:-):-)(actually, it was ordered and shipped before you started the thread):p:p:p
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