We’re not supposed to abuse each other on the forums, right? Well how about neglect? I have noticed lately that approximately 20% of all threads posted go almost completely ignored. Some new people show up here, post questions, never receive an answer and then just leave and never come back.
Others (myself included) persist because this is one of the best forums on the net for Flash and related skillsets. But I have found myself often forced to either muscle on through problems until they are eventually solved, or give up completely because I can’t get any help here (I usually just find a different way of doing what I want to do).
Now I don’t want to appear ungrateful - it’s kind of a double-edge situation: I’m grateful for whatever help I receive, but frustrated when I get none. I think that’s fair, right? So I look for threads going unanswered and try to help with what knowledge I have, but often the most I do is help the person’s thread get noticed by the more experienced users.
What is it that leads to this larger percentage of threads going unanswered? Do people just get tired of answering the same questions or tired of helping, period? Or perhaps the ratio of experienced to newbies has changed quite a bit lately…? Has the volume of new posts per day gone up?
Lastly, I’d be interested to know what makes you, the reader of this post, move on to a different thread when you’re just ambling around the forum - too long, too wordy, bad English, asking a question that’s in the stickies, etc?
I’ll begin: for me, I move on without answer if a.)I just have no clue to the answer (b.)The person can’t write coherently, or (c.)The person posts a super-long-winded question with 100 lines of code and asks someone to “fix it”
What about you?
Edit: by the way, this post is being written not in frustration at some unanswered post of mine, but in concern for all the “0 replies” posts I see.
