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Just Chat! / Re: Isn't this More Correct?
« on: 26/04/2023 13:10:09 »
Hi.
(Move this with @Zer0 's recent post, if that does get moved).
1. Some people did just want a question answered. Once that's done they have no reason to remain.
2. People have many other things to do and writing something on a computer takes a long time compared to just talking to someone in real life.
My opinion of what is a low quality posts includes these things:
1. Obvious junk like advertising.
2. Posts that are just needlessly offensive.
3. Monologues. There are other sites and better places to just have something on display on the internet. For example, Wikipedia takes articles written by anyone, that's how the whole thing started. If you're bursting with knowledge or enthusiasm about a thing and want to have it on public display on the internet, see if you can write a Wikipedia article. Meanwhile, a forum (I would think) is a place for discussion with someone else and not for publishing or what is sometimes described as "preaching". (Rough guide: If you've replied to yourself 6 times and no-one else has replied in between, then there probably wasn't anyone here who could discuss the topic or that wished to).
It's not all negative: One of the things that is very much in favour of this site is that it is very tolerant. There are some forums that I would never recommend to a friend just because they are likely to put someone off stuying more physics.
Best Wishes.
(Move this with @Zer0 's recent post, if that does get moved).
Why is TNS unable to Retain New Members?I don't know. I can speculate and talk about my own views / experience, that is all:
1. Some people did just want a question answered. Once that's done they have no reason to remain.
2. People have many other things to do and writing something on a computer takes a long time compared to just talking to someone in real life.
From somewhere or somehow, folks end up coming in here, but very very few stay back.Actually I think a lot more could be done to encourage new users. One of the first things I did when I stumbled upon this site was to look around at the existing threads and discussions. There was a large amount of very low quality posts which put me off using the site.
My opinion of what is a low quality posts includes these things:
1. Obvious junk like advertising.
2. Posts that are just needlessly offensive.
3. Monologues. There are other sites and better places to just have something on display on the internet. For example, Wikipedia takes articles written by anyone, that's how the whole thing started. If you're bursting with knowledge or enthusiasm about a thing and want to have it on public display on the internet, see if you can write a Wikipedia article. Meanwhile, a forum (I would think) is a place for discussion with someone else and not for publishing or what is sometimes described as "preaching". (Rough guide: If you've replied to yourself 6 times and no-one else has replied in between, then there probably wasn't anyone here who could discuss the topic or that wished to).
It's not all negative: One of the things that is very much in favour of this site is that it is very tolerant. There are some forums that I would never recommend to a friend just because they are likely to put someone off stuying more physics.
Best Wishes.
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