Originally Posted by
happyscraper
It took me 7 min. to find all the threads that deal with braking down compressors without using the search engine.
That's fantastic. But with 983 posts and 6 months' time on the site, plus whatever experience you already had, you had a huge advantage in knowing what to look for. I applaud your searching skills, but once again, and with all due respect, you're not taking into account you know what the other guy doesn't.
I am, myself, an experienced forum moderator. I ran the Mopar Mailing List for 10 years. I've dealt with newbies and hundreds of questions before as the admin -- not just a frustrated user. I am also a degreed software developer with over 20 years experience in the I.T. business. It's not like I just fell off the scrap truck yesterday. Yes, I am new to the scrap metals business...not new to life.
I think it's great that there are people here with experience who are sharing their knowledge with people who are less experienced. That's why I came here in the first place. What I'm finding, though, is that this knowledge is scattered among hundreds upon hundreds of posts in hundreds of threads. If this scrap metals thing is a business -- and I'm sure you would agree that it is -- than it is easy to understand why people often seek the shortest path to learning what they need to know in order to be successful. Time is money. Spending weeks reading old threads online is completely impractical if you're trying to put food on your table.
So I see your complaining (about the newbies) and I raise you a complaint about the organization of the information you say is so readily available. It's not. I have an idea of how to fix that. Crapping on that idea with "it only took me 7 minutes to find all the threads" is BS. If you have a better idea than the default "read all the old threads" then fantastic. Share it with us. Otherwise, again, with all due respect, you're not helping.
--Geoff
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