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Re: What is a "Quality" post?
i have to say after reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, and questioning on the word "quality"-- it well, i have no idea really what quality means at times, but it's what u interpret it as and the same thing here with posting-- you have to def. though keep it a reasonable size and def. too stick with the rules of cd-- without the rules it gets too messy
enjoy writing all the great quality posts! |
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Re: What is a "Quality" post?
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. Support your Local Wiki. |
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Re: What is a "Quality" post?
Most of what I believe makes a good post has already been addressed in this thread so I am going to skip the bullet points on that end no matter how much joy they bring.
However I think there are more sides to the "why" we need good quality posts. Obviously bad posts can be very annoying but also we are eating up Chiefdelphi resources. "Bad posts" should not be present on Chiefdelphi in the same way that we should not have "bad logins." I think this is an issue that goes hand in hand with bad posts and one that has not been addressed yet as much. When I check the main page at this very moment I see 141 users on the board. 16 of them are spiders so there isn't much we can do about that. However the rest break down to be 1 - Announcements 16 - General Forum 1 - Rumor Mill 2 - Career 16 - Robot Showcase 5 - Technical Discussion 4 - Programming 1 - Control System 1 - Pneumatics 4 - IT 1 - Championship 1 - Regional 1 - Off Season 6 - FIRST Related Organizations 9 - Chit-Chat 1 - Televised Robotics 1 - FIRST in the news That...unless my math is terrible...is 71 users. It is not very likely that 53 users decided to move to a new forum exactly as I hit my refresh button. Considering the new announcement about having to limit access to the board to 300 users I think we should all start making an effort to sign off and leave the site alone when we wander away. 1/3rd of the people here wasting resources is too much. That isn't counting people who have just left Chiefdelphi running in a specific forum while running off to eat dinner. I really do not believe that a faster time before accounts are automatically logged off is the answer, especially in a league centered around Gracious Professionalism. I just think that when we are talking about using Chiefdelphi resources in a non-constructive manner we should consider all ways me might error and work to correct them all. |
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