At the risk of being fricasseed, I get Nvr2fst's points & agree with him. You put to pen what our inner orphanages have been screaming about all long but the civil adult in us would dare not say. Bravo! Admittedly you've been a bit harsh on one or two here and there, but for the most part the schoolmaster in you keeps it civil yet sharp. Again, bravo!
This was a good forum for awhile, very friendly, very accommodating, plenty of veteran RC'ers & new P2V'ers sharing experiences & solutions, educated guesses & theories alike, and for awhile the threads were relatively tight and stayed together (like Uncle Fester's More Powerful Repeater thread), and most of what anyone needed to know could be found on Page-1 of the Vision Index.
It seemed like this could work. Unfortunately it didn't take more than a few months to deteriorate into redundant topics, questions, answers, and chaos. Add to that the dis-information posted by trolls, and their impersonation of contributing members for the sole purpose of harassing others to upset & confuse them and I'd say the place has lost some of its shine, bohemian free-for-all sex-appeal aside.
I'm a founding member & contributor in an automotive forum that's going on a dozen years now. My Sticky still stands and other founding members continue to maintain the thread to help newcomers. The key to its success was a handful of moderators who wrote the rules and never hesitated to unceremoniously remind the forgetful to show them the Search Engine or move their posts to the appropriate thread where life would continue. There are no trolls. It's a waste of time for them to even try. Avada Kadabra... poof! There are no trolls, period. And the beauty of it all is that it attracted a lot of contributors with knowledge & experience and gave them a safe place to share it forward & educate the less empowered & less fortunate.
So I take Nvr2fst's points to heart, I even appreciate his Fargo'esque humor. I seriously wouldn't classify him as a bully. Save that mark & your angst for the troll who continues to freely lurk among us impersonating DJI's representatives or members such as yours truly for weeks at a time before being squashed by our forum founder, only to reappear incarnate for another few weeks under a different identity or two or three.
If you want high-quality useful information and generous contributors who'll take their time to help those who could do with some help, cleaning-up the forum and sweeping out the trash is a good place to start. At the moment, this forum is in its infancy. It'll be interesting to see how it goes.
iDrone (the Very) :|
This was a good forum for awhile, very friendly, very accommodating, plenty of veteran RC'ers & new P2V'ers sharing experiences & solutions, educated guesses & theories alike, and for awhile the threads were relatively tight and stayed together (like Uncle Fester's More Powerful Repeater thread), and most of what anyone needed to know could be found on Page-1 of the Vision Index.
It seemed like this could work. Unfortunately it didn't take more than a few months to deteriorate into redundant topics, questions, answers, and chaos. Add to that the dis-information posted by trolls, and their impersonation of contributing members for the sole purpose of harassing others to upset & confuse them and I'd say the place has lost some of its shine, bohemian free-for-all sex-appeal aside.
I'm a founding member & contributor in an automotive forum that's going on a dozen years now. My Sticky still stands and other founding members continue to maintain the thread to help newcomers. The key to its success was a handful of moderators who wrote the rules and never hesitated to unceremoniously remind the forgetful to show them the Search Engine or move their posts to the appropriate thread where life would continue. There are no trolls. It's a waste of time for them to even try. Avada Kadabra... poof! There are no trolls, period. And the beauty of it all is that it attracted a lot of contributors with knowledge & experience and gave them a safe place to share it forward & educate the less empowered & less fortunate.
So I take Nvr2fst's points to heart, I even appreciate his Fargo'esque humor. I seriously wouldn't classify him as a bully. Save that mark & your angst for the troll who continues to freely lurk among us impersonating DJI's representatives or members such as yours truly for weeks at a time before being squashed by our forum founder, only to reappear incarnate for another few weeks under a different identity or two or three.
If you want high-quality useful information and generous contributors who'll take their time to help those who could do with some help, cleaning-up the forum and sweeping out the trash is a good place to start. At the moment, this forum is in its infancy. It'll be interesting to see how it goes.
iDrone (the Very) :|