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Old 14th Jan 2019, 4:53 pm   #14
dave walsh
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Default Re: "Sticky"

The site owner makes an obvious point about visibility being essential to promote usage but I would suggest that the stickies are still all quite useful to refer and point others to. In that sense I'd be happy to see them remain both for quick access and also historic value. There's not that many of them [overall] and "clear outs" in the past have seen things disappear altogether. It's quite interesting to see how the advice [re Radiograms for example] has changed now [when we never really thought that it would] and keeping that record may be invaluable even if there is a current update added. Normally we try to preserve things here after all

A bigger but related issue is the "new entrants", seemingly resulting from You Tube and a widespread "Retro" interest, some of who see to have a different perception of a Forum and expect free one to one tuition, often at painful and incomprehensible length! This has culminated in a few people [seemingly] taking offence and "resigning" in a "huff" when they are not readily agreed with. Bizarrely, they are also sometimes very polite and grateful about it [or not] which is confusing in itself. Either way it's frustrating and time wasting.

Perhaps an explanatory banner or front page [I'm not computer savvy] would be a better option? We could make an electrical safety warning the very first item, followed by an explanation re what the site is ie not a free tuition or valuation service [with exceptions for those unable to research for themselves] and what the Forum IS ie like minded polite people helping each other but not necessarily from very first inclination to "get in to radio" based on what they have read about "re-capping" elsewhere.

That's where the UKVRRR was always so different-the methodical approach! You can't get into the "Modern" section without 10 posts. Perhaps being obliged to look at Paul Stennings excellent "Guide to Obtaining and Repairing Radios" plus Stickies related to any enquiry BEFORE proceeding [there isn't a direct link] would be appropriate these days and serve to help everyone? In the meantime, should there a limit on some threads when they are getting bogged down due to attitude or a lack of comprehension?

Dave W

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