Rant About New Members Section Content...

[Muhammad]

On a more serious note, we previously had a link to post in the new member forum immediately after members registered. I have removed that link and we now direct people to the main forum page in an effort to get new members to choose a section more relevant to their thread topic. Hopefully this will cut down on some of the posts in the new members forum that shouldn't be there.

 

[jmurray01]

On a more serious note, we previously had a link to post in the new member forum immediately after members registered. I have removed that link and we now direct people to the main forum page in an effort to get new members to choose a section more relevant to their thread topic. Hopefully this will cut down on some of the posts in the new members forum that shouldn't be there.

That should help a bit, but maybe you could put a notice in the New Members section saying "Please don't post lawn mower questions in here" or something ?

That way they would have no excuse.

 

[Oddball]

It might help if under the forum heading New Members , where it says New to the site? Etc ... If it would say something like " This is for introductions only. If you have questions, please post them in the appropriate forum and not here."

 

[jmurray01]

It might help if under the forum heading New Members , where it says New to the site? Etc ... If it would say something like " This is for introductions only. If you have questions, please post them in the appropriate forum and not here."

Exactly :thumbsup:

 

[benski]

Exactly :thumbsup:

+2 on that!

 

[BKBrown]

Hi, I'm new (just born) !
I need some help with ..... {figuring out where to post things} !

Introduce your self and THEN -----
Look around a little and figure out where to ask your question !

 

[JDgreen]

Hi, I'm new (just born) !
I need some help with ..... {figuring out where to post things} !

Introduce your self and THEN -----
Look around a little and figure out where to ask your question !

What is the newbies have lousy vision like mine and can't see where to ask?

 

[Briana]

Hi Guys,

You'll notice the out of place threads in the New Member Forum have almost completely diminished since Muhammad changed the redirect. Yay!

Thanks Muhammad!

Oh, and P.S. I moved this thread to the Site Discussion forum. Simply for organizational purposes. :wink:

 

[jmurray01]

What is the newbies have lousy vision like mine and can't see where to ask?

What about a vocal notice then ?

"Don't post questions in the New Members section - If you do, I will come and beat the **** out of you"

Just repeat that through their speakers on a loop :laughing:

 

[twall]

This has always been a gripe of mine. I had more sympathy for the n00bs when I found out the way the registration process was set up to make a newbie think that there was nothing more to the forum, or one needed a postcount to be met first to post anywhere other than the newbie section.

HOWEVER, if you are is such a rotten hurry for an answer to a question you can't even LOOK to see there is more to the site, I tend to think the search function was also not used to look for an answer to a question that has probably been asked a million stinkin times.

That denotes laziness, and that makes me irate. If you don't like it, too stinkin bad. :biggrin:

Thanks, Muhammad, for changing the way it works - now there is no excuse to not look at the rest of the site. :thumbsup: