[Touch Pro, Fuze General] AthenaLod:
Disrespectfulness

darfri said:

I have seen many dumb questions starting a thread around here like "my device is slow! What to do?" but those threads will also disappear in "history" and I don't understand how this really bugs anyone

KD8DNS said:

You (no disrespect) new users here must realize that this has been our home for a long time

aaand, scotchua said & said & said & ...:

You obviously don't know what the point of the forum is.

not all opinions are of equal value to me

If only any of those whining about this knew how much each mods...

I personally don't even think it would be unfair to administer a short ban for people so blatantly disregarding the rules

The problem we're facing is that most users are thinking individually.

I do agree that a sub-forum might be a possible solution to the problem, but even then people are still not going to even bother reading the rules.

As for the Q&A thread, I don't expect anyone to look for answers in there

if it turns into people complaining because they don't like the Q & A thread then i'll probably just close it.​

i have followed this thread from the moment it was created as i shared the same feeling as the op with the dissatisfaction with the current policy of merging all qa threads into one qa thread. i have seen how the similar problem of not-that-constructive posts was solved in the general d&h forum by creating a qa subforum, and i thought that was the right solution.

in the mean time, the situation before the qa thread was not disastrous, as darfri indicated.

i was really annoyed by the disrespectful reply of KD8DNS and the many disrespectful replies by scotchua. it is really amazing how scotchua was throwing insults right and left to everybody who criticized the single-qa-thread policy. THIS is what should be totally unacceptable, not a naive user's question that have asked and answered a billion times. the use of terms like whining tells you that even if you are the brightest, you can't be the best leader (or moderator in our case). scotchua's thoughts of feeling that developers are better than non-developers are simple wrong! i am sure scotchua knows that many of his fellow smarter-than-the-rest-of-us developers have gained a lot of knowledge and came up with many ideas by reading such "valueless" threads.

scotchua might think it is unimportant, but i usually tend to the qa subforum and try to answer general simple questions that i can answer, and i have noticed many others do the same, from a user point of view, such a single qa thread just kills this kind of participation.

forums exist on so many topics all over the internet, and the simple feature in all such forums of having non-active threads go down, is the simple solution to the problem scotchua is "whining" about by having and trying to explain by writing posts of 100s of words to everybody who is disagreeing with that useless thread policy.

the single thread for all qa's policy is obviously wrong because a questioners can't find answers to their question, if anybody ever cared to try answer it in such a mess!

and such disrespectful responses should stop. being a mod doesn't give such privileges.