Why do newbies join & not post?

[LostDoggy]

Re: Why do newbies join & not post?

I understand what you mean Sophie, 90% of the time I don't feel like I can add anything mildly interesting or intelligent, so I don't- but I never feel like the guys on here are treating me any differently because I'm a teenage girl (well, maybe that one time TCD used a pink font when he was quoting me..).

The site can be pretty intimidating when you're all talking about tactics and techniques and stuff like that, so I understand why a lot of newbies don't post much, or they could just forget about it as well, either way.

[GVGjr]

Re: Why do newbies join & not post?

The admins here actually spend a fair bit of time each week trying to encourage the newer folk to contribute however, some don't even bother to reply to the message. The ones that do have often advised that they just want to be readers not contributors

For Sophie, Big Will and bulldogsimmo (and anyone else) who felt they might have fallen into the not contributing group I can assure you from my perspective that this was definitely not aimed at you more it was asking a question of the people that join up, visit the site regularly and after 6 months still haven't contributed to any discussion.

No one wants people to contribute for the sake of it but having said that, somewhere down the track there will be nothing to read if the majority continue to leave it to just a select few.
Simply speaking we are a discussion board not a news board.


The admins have this well in hand and by the end of the month there will be a few things in place to hopefully encourage the newer folk to contribute.

I'll close this thread because it won't flesh out anything that we don't already know.