Splitting Up the Forum?

[Tree Machine]

having it laid out in front of them where they just keep reading would make it easier. I guess what I am getting at is that if there was a forum for gear...technique...how to...newbie stuff, it would be nice if it was filtered by a moderator and left as a question answer forum.


As information is posted it could be put under the appropriate question. All responses may not stay on the forum based on there substance and the moderator could summarize the response to eliminate the flames, and the stuff that is really not that important.

Thanks, Pete. I get your feeling of wanting to organize this all a bit better. Arboristsite is feeling like this vast warehouse of valuable information and you are wanting to add some bright lighting and organize the many shelves of topics.


Well, since we've just opened this new branch building called "Arborist 101", I guess we' in charge of creating what it is we want the way we want it.

OK. That's good to know.

 

[Tree Machine]

PTS desperately wants to make this part easier for newbies to go direct to the threads that have the questions the noobs are asking or will be asking.

Did I get that right?

And that we may, in theory, provide for the readership the answers to their questions precluding their need, then, to have to ask them. information (especially early, basics) would need to be 'served up on a silver platter' so the noob can move on seamlessly to more challenging topics.

Pete, your thinking is genius. You present a need; we create a solution. Now would be the very best time to do that.

 

[Tree Machine]

Darin, we appreciate your inclusion and input.

 

[Tree Machine]

How to better organize our branch location........

ArboristSite really is a veritable library. The search function is our access to ALL topics, but the thing is, you have to search. That brings me to one of my infamous analogies.

To a noob, a trip to ArboristSite can be like a fishing trip. You KNOW you wanna catch fish, you may not know what kind, but fish is good.

After spending 2/3 of the event gearing up, getting there, getting put in, getting to the place......you may or may not catch a fish.


At Arborist 101, we need to provide fish, like a fish store. You got the saltwater fishes with the saltwater fishes, fresh with fresh, got your shellfish over here, different shrimps here.

You come for fish, you will find seafood, available, visual, go there by clicking a hyperlink.


This is the long way of going about saying, we need to provide links to past threads and post them. Answer questions with them. Use past threads as a foundation for topics being discussed. That is done regularly, somewhat, in the pro forums, but we need to do it here with <i>conviction, diligence and intent.</i>

Does this sound like we're going in the right direction?

 

[fmueller]

You guys deserve a hats off. This site is alot more pleasant than it was a year ago which allows more people to glean knowledge from all the posts. Congratulations.

 

[PTS]

Hwo does the saying go...Give someone a fish and they're fed fro the day...teach them to fish and they never go hungry...

Part of the learning process is work. It is SO easy to get info using search features or Google these days. Most of the questions that come up have been sliced and diced before. Not saying that there isn't room for more discussion, but why do someone's homework. Spoon feeding is for babies, teach them how to feed themselves.

I don't disagree however.... I thought the real concern here is that everyone is tired of the same old newbie questions. So what is it going to be spoon feed and save ourselves the repeated topics and question causing this site to be known as a site with all the answers........ or make them search and deal with all the repeat questions and be known as the site for all the answers IF you can find them. Lets face it, I myself am a busy person as are you and if I need an answer from a store clerk and they are too busy to help me I go to another store. But if the store provides great service to me I will always go back there and then I become stuck on them and would never go anywhere else. To me this is the pathway to arboristsite's future. If all of the old members leave and there are no new members the site dies. Why make it hard?:bang: