Claymore
Well-known member
1. Repeat Standard Questions - The same questions will get asked repeatedly by the stream of 'newbies' (and I certainly took my turn) but on subjects such as use of the Brake Paddles - why are there not more 'stickies' posted at the head of appropriate sections of the forums so that the usual stalwarts don't have to keep stating the same things over and over again?
If the sticky was locked and only capable of alteration by an administrator others would be free to offer thoughts by PM if something obvious (and actually useful and/or pertinent might be added or changed) or if the passing of time required some or all of it to be 'refreshed'.
2. Thread Drift - The concepts of 'decorum' and/or etiquette are increasingly rare creatures in the world today but is it now too much to ask that if, for example, some poor sod asks about using the paddles on his car that he / she doesn't have to wade through 9 or more pages of irrelevant esoteric arguments about Continuously Variable Transmissions.
The fact that I too took part in that doesn't pass the 'so what?' test.
In any conversation subject matter will drift but when thread drift becomes as bad as it is on here people will be even less likely to bother searching for answers on their own because the threads that are presented to them as a result of the search will mostly contain information about a quite different subject to that which they sought. Apart from that, beyond a certain point it's just plain rude.
Because of 2. above, out of sympathy for the original poster, I pulled out the original question and reposted it with my own simple and no doubt incomplete response. I am please that is locked but I'm amazed at the comment that duplicate threads are unhelpful as it certainly couldn't be described as a duplicate of the thread it was taken from, and surprised that the vociferous embedded drift subject hasn't been commented on and moved to another thread.
Just saying, and as I've been so audacious I'll better wave 'bye bye'.........
JimB
If the sticky was locked and only capable of alteration by an administrator others would be free to offer thoughts by PM if something obvious (and actually useful and/or pertinent might be added or changed) or if the passing of time required some or all of it to be 'refreshed'.
2. Thread Drift - The concepts of 'decorum' and/or etiquette are increasingly rare creatures in the world today but is it now too much to ask that if, for example, some poor sod asks about using the paddles on his car that he / she doesn't have to wade through 9 or more pages of irrelevant esoteric arguments about Continuously Variable Transmissions.
The fact that I too took part in that doesn't pass the 'so what?' test.
In any conversation subject matter will drift but when thread drift becomes as bad as it is on here people will be even less likely to bother searching for answers on their own because the threads that are presented to them as a result of the search will mostly contain information about a quite different subject to that which they sought. Apart from that, beyond a certain point it's just plain rude.
Because of 2. above, out of sympathy for the original poster, I pulled out the original question and reposted it with my own simple and no doubt incomplete response. I am please that is locked but I'm amazed at the comment that duplicate threads are unhelpful as it certainly couldn't be described as a duplicate of the thread it was taken from, and surprised that the vociferous embedded drift subject hasn't been commented on and moved to another thread.
Just saying, and as I've been so audacious I'll better wave 'bye bye'.........
JimB