WileEDingo
New member
Before going off to try another CAD forum site, I thought I would take a minute to make a suggestion to the site administrators which might improve this site.
My suggestion is simply to allow posts and their replies to appear immediately, and only step in to moderate when issues are brought to your attention. I’m sure you could set up some automatic filtering to deny posts containing various taboo words and topics. As the site currently stands, it takes about a day for a post to even show up, and another day for a reply, and another day for ... well, you get the idea. This might be why a) there are so few new posts on a daily basis, b) why so few posts actually have replies, and c) why those that do have replies very rarely have more than two. It would seem that communication is being stifled by over-moderation. I believe most people are expecting a much faster response time. Anyone truly looking for help can't wait that long and will have moved on to other web sites and resources long before their query even shows up.
Perhaps I am all wrong about this; either way, I hope to hear back from the site admins on this topic. I will check back in a day or two.
My suggestion is simply to allow posts and their replies to appear immediately, and only step in to moderate when issues are brought to your attention. I’m sure you could set up some automatic filtering to deny posts containing various taboo words and topics. As the site currently stands, it takes about a day for a post to even show up, and another day for a reply, and another day for ... well, you get the idea. This might be why a) there are so few new posts on a daily basis, b) why so few posts actually have replies, and c) why those that do have replies very rarely have more than two. It would seem that communication is being stifled by over-moderation. I believe most people are expecting a much faster response time. Anyone truly looking for help can't wait that long and will have moved on to other web sites and resources long before their query even shows up.
Perhaps I am all wrong about this; either way, I hope to hear back from the site admins on this topic. I will check back in a day or two.