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Yes. My word choices were not very accurate. They were new Members right up to the point where they became Spam Accounts. I would rather we not discuss this further in public. Plus this is off topic and apparently I started it. I will self administer 20 lashes post haste. Moving on please…..
You don't need 20 posts to start a thread. You can start a thread with post number 1. But your first one would be in a new posters forum where you still get questions answered or other help from everyone.
I thought you were proposing that a new user complete 20 posts in the new user forum before being allowed to post outside the new user forum.
Given that Amir's complaint was that current users are behaving badly towards new users, is restricting what the new users can do the direction we want to take?
Given that Amir's complaint was that current users are behaving badly towards new users, is restricting what the new users can do the direction we want to take?
That's a psychology worth investigating. What's the reward for mocking and deriding? There must be something motivating this behavior. Everyone has all sorts of other things they could do besides online bullying so why do they choose to do that? There are reasons for behaving like that. What are they?
There are reasons indeed - look at studies on “online inhibition effect” and biases like “Dunning Kruger Effect” in combination with a primarily aging male demographic of the Forum (E.g., physical factors, like Irritable Male Syndrome).
Those will explain the need for the OP reminder, and will also explain why some need constant reminding or removal.
The social scientists and psychologists could give you a much more precise answer as to the general reasons for the group dynamics you see emerge, but there are going to individual factors as well - and those are reasons we will never know why they do what they do.
I think there is a natural impulse to correct those who are clearly wrong and think they know a lot. Remember when you were a teen a knew everything about the world. It's a shame how stupid I've become since then. Ignorance has its charms.
It's the answer to the (same) question I asked earlier. If the answer really is "report it, don't be horrid to children" all I can say is given the amount of trolling/hostile nonsense coming from the credulous, you're going to be getting a lot of reports. Let's hope warnings don't end up being given to users who report too many such posts! Maybe there's a master thread where people who want to take issue with the site's raison d'etre in every review/discussion can have their typing banished.
I thought you were proposing that a new user complete 20 posts in the new user forum before being allowed to post outside the new user forum.
Given that Amir's complaint was that current users are behaving badly towards new users, is restricting what the new users can do the direction we want to take?
Again, I am not restricting anything for new users. Only having threads they post show up in a new users forum. That way everyone who responds knows it is a new user so take a little extra care, don't assume it is a troll until it makes it clear they are. And new users still get to respond to any existing threads without restrictions. That lets a new user post a new thread just to ask questions. Only it is in the new users forum. A new user may respond in any forum to any existing thread. That part is no different than it is now.
If you are serious you could volume match and AB them/compare them to other speakers. The difference will be very obvious as the Bose 301 is a hollow sounding mid-rangy speaker.
I will self administer 20 lashes post haste. Moving on please…..
