A Rookie Forum?

[Ken Leung]

Dare I suggest something that may benefit both the rookie and veteran teams on this forum?

I saw the discussion in this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=41635 earlier today, and I thought, while it is important to tell rookie members to read the manual and search the forum, it is also important to understand just how overwhelming it is for a rookie team during their first year. There is a new game to think about, a new team to work with, and a new forum to browse.

To me, there are three kinds of answers you can give to someone asking questions around here.

One, ask them nicely to search the forum and read the manual if the question is simple and direct.
Two, give them the answer quoting the place there the answer can be located at, and ask them to refer to that location from now on.
Three, a more in depth explaination might be needed for someone who have absolutely no experience in the game, in the manual, and in the forum.

It seems to be that rookie teams and rookie members may very well need the third kind of answer for a while before they become familiar with all new things.

However, the problem with rookie members flooding the forum with simple questions is precisely that, the flooding of the forum with questions that could be easily answered with a little experience at everything.

So, here is what I purpose. Set up a sub-forum specifically for rookies.

They can go in there, ask their silly questions, and get a quick answer before they collapse from this whole experience. And for those of us who are willing to give these rookie members the patience they need, and have time to explain things a little more in depth, we can go in there and help the rookies at a pace they need.

Mean while the rest of the forum become less cluttered with silly questions.


Here comes the best part about it. For the rookies who finally have a chance to catch a breath and figure out just exactly what they are doing, they can "graduate" from the rookie forum and move into where the general discussions are. Before then, we will continue to move these silly questions into the rookie forums, and the rookies can continue to post inside the rookie forum and ask as much silly questions they want and say as much silly thing as they can.


It is just a thought . Feel free to comment on it if you want.