Flashback:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...t+source+bu y
I really appreciate not only that post, but all of the posts referenced there.
There are some technical threads that read as chatty conversations -- a million short posts adding snippets of information or incite here and there as the thread grows. There are other threads that spontaneously develop into a short series of well spoken people writing full treatises on the subject at hand, covering all the bases and presenting their argument in full and at one. A couple of fantastic drive train conversations from last summer come to mind as examples of the latter. I think there is a place for both, and whichever personal preference is at least part of the friction over "quality posts." I submit, however, that the biggest element of quality in my mind is a posts utility for people in the future. There are some threads out there that will still be pertinent and oft-referenced years from now, and there are others that won't make any sense when you wake up tomorrow morning.
As an example: try to do a search on this board to figure out what the internal gear ratios are for high and low gear on the Bosch drill. There are a million posts to sift through in identical conversations with uninformative titles and one line posts disseminating only one precious statistic at a time. When someone asks for the specs on a drill motor, a million people chime in with one number representing only their best recollection of its free rpm.
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