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Originally posted by Bill Gold
I think that the idea of having a forum where questions are asked and legitimate answers are given quickly is great. I just think that more people ought to be allowed to voice their suggestions in these threads. Maybe we could allow everyone to answer the questions and then we (by we I mean Brandon  ) police these threads more vigilantly and started preventing certain people from answering if they proved themselves incapable of that responsibility. Posting in that forum ought to be a privilege, not a right, but not necessarily limited to the people who currently have that responsibility. In the end I’ll yield to CD. After all, it’s not like it’s my website.
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First of all, thanks guys for replying. This is why I started the thread. I don't need to hear people agreeing with me.
My reason for starting a Q&A place is the same as what Bill said. A place for anyone to come in and ask quick questions and get answers. It certainly never meant to replace other forums.
As I said, I originally thought of it being invite only is to prevent trouble makers. Any rules made are made to make sure the Q&A forum go as smoothly as possible. Nothing more. People like M could tell if replies are good or not and ignor the bad answers, but rookie members cannot tell what's correct and what isn't. That's why there need to be some way to make sure answers are good.
Of course there are few ways to do it. We can either make sure only good people can reply, or make sure every answered is checked.
I think a better way to do this is to let everyone replying, while having a long list of moderators to help check answers and make sure they are good answers. When I said long, I think everyone underestimated my definition of long. From the tone in everyone's posts "long" seems to mean the current list + 20. What I really mean is 400+
. The more the better. It pretty much means "EVERYONE in FIRST - trouble makers & inexperienced people".
Do you think that would work out better? Just having the moderators act as checker of answers?
Also, one more thing. Would it be better if the Q&A forum is some where else and not in CD?