Alright here it is from my point of view.
No matter what we are not going to destroy hit and runners. It wont happen no matter what the effort is. Adding in the extra effort to make it so that the rules are read and people MUST read them, will drive them to another site. Think about it. Why come here if you cant just click on the Registration button, fill in the form and go. Now you have to read the Rules and scroll through them ALL and answer some question based on them.
I can find about 500 other sites through Google that has Tech Forums, Computer Forums or any combination of Tech, PC, computers and so on that will allow me to just fill out a form, ask my question and get an answer. Why are we so special and difficult?
The Registration should not be changed and I will make an effort to not have it changed. We are not special. I can name at least 10 other sites, most of which that have a user base right around ours, that you dont need any special hoops to jump through. We are not about to start cause some people are tired of the hit and run attitude of others.
We are here to help! It doesnt matter if they sign up, ask and never show up again for the rest of their lives. We may never know if we helped them or not. We may never know if we even gave them the answer they needed or not. That is NOT our purpose. I was a HnR person for my first 3 years on site. Look at me now.
Sorry Dozer but I dont agree with your tactics and I dont think that this is how TF should be run. We are not anything special in the relm of Forums and we dont need hoops to jump through cause the amount of HnR people is growing for Summer. Forums are already a dying breed. Last thing we need is to give people a reason to leave our site and go to others cause we make it more difficult to join.
People find out real quick about the rules. Either by breaking them or by reading them. Either way they either get into line or get off the site. It doesnt change no matter what site you go to and it never will. You dont think sites even as large as CNet doesnt get HnR people? Microsoft Answers Forums has them as well. It is the nature of the beast for forums and it isnt something that you can just put measures into place to stop. I know this from experience of owning my own site that has gone under cause of such measures. In the scale of forums, we are not that large. We can't afford to lose membership and the little amount of Ad Revenue we get. If we did we would go under cause it would be to costly to continue to run the site.
No matter what we are not going to destroy hit and runners. It wont happen no matter what the effort is. Adding in the extra effort to make it so that the rules are read and people MUST read them, will drive them to another site. Think about it. Why come here if you cant just click on the Registration button, fill in the form and go. Now you have to read the Rules and scroll through them ALL and answer some question based on them.
I can find about 500 other sites through Google that has Tech Forums, Computer Forums or any combination of Tech, PC, computers and so on that will allow me to just fill out a form, ask my question and get an answer. Why are we so special and difficult?
The Registration should not be changed and I will make an effort to not have it changed. We are not special. I can name at least 10 other sites, most of which that have a user base right around ours, that you dont need any special hoops to jump through. We are not about to start cause some people are tired of the hit and run attitude of others.
We are here to help! It doesnt matter if they sign up, ask and never show up again for the rest of their lives. We may never know if we helped them or not. We may never know if we even gave them the answer they needed or not. That is NOT our purpose. I was a HnR person for my first 3 years on site. Look at me now.
Sorry Dozer but I dont agree with your tactics and I dont think that this is how TF should be run. We are not anything special in the relm of Forums and we dont need hoops to jump through cause the amount of HnR people is growing for Summer. Forums are already a dying breed. Last thing we need is to give people a reason to leave our site and go to others cause we make it more difficult to join.
People find out real quick about the rules. Either by breaking them or by reading them. Either way they either get into line or get off the site. It doesnt change no matter what site you go to and it never will. You dont think sites even as large as CNet doesnt get HnR people? Microsoft Answers Forums has them as well. It is the nature of the beast for forums and it isnt something that you can just put measures into place to stop. I know this from experience of owning my own site that has gone under cause of such measures. In the scale of forums, we are not that large. We can't afford to lose membership and the little amount of Ad Revenue we get. If we did we would go under cause it would be to costly to continue to run the site.