"Techies" on the forum

[aspire]

Well, duh...

Just how i see things is that no computer noob should take advice from anyone with fewer than 500 posts on the forums. Otherwise **** happens.

So yeah, ive noticed this and i frown upon it. My favorite one is when ppl give advice for **** they have no experience with.

ANyways, i agree with this thread, and i eagerly await tf2

Which will probly come out some time after i graduate from college
(Im 17 now...)

 

[FireFox]

PP is right about some of the old bioses having a "format" capability. The ones I have seen had "low level formatting" which just fills up the hdd with 0's. Low level formatting takes a long time and makes it harder to recover files too.

King X13, you do not necessarily need format.com and dos to format. Linux is a completely different operating system and can format without format.com as well. So can Solaris, *BSD, and Unixes.

No fun...I wanted to see PP explain it.

 

[Jam3s-Zer0]

This thread is starting to 'class' people knowledge about computers on things that do not matter. Age and Post count mean **** about knowledge.

Anyone in here over the age of 20 prob knows that you dont need a 7,000 dollar pc with the lastest chip that your getting that didnt even come out yet, just to play everquest or something.

Why not people under the age of 20? I know that and i am 15.

just how i see things is that no computer noob should take advice from anyone with fewer than 500 posts on the forums. Otherwise **** happens.

Why under 500 posts? If I spam up to 500 posts then I suddenly become trustworthy to give advise?
Everyone starts with 0 posts no matter how much knowledge they have.

If I am a computer expert from another forum and have been giving great advise for years and I decide to join TF that means I should not be able to give advise?

 

[brady]

If I am a computer expert from another forum and have been giving great advise for years and I decide to join TF that means I should not be able to give advise?

You have to put in time here, just like everyone else.

 

[FireFox]

If I am a computer expert from another forum and have been giving great advise for years and I decide to join TF that means I should not be able to give advise?

No, it means that people shouldn't take your advice. I'm not saying that -- that's just what what's his name ^^up^^ there was saying.

On a more random note -- I just got suspended from a site for 5 days....meh, that's like...one of the first times I've ever gotten in trouble somewheres...ah well, I had it coming. ^_^

 

[Jam3s-Zer0]

You have to put in time here, just like everyone else.

Why would I have to put time in to give VALID advise. My knowledge cannot be judged by post count. Someone with 1k+ post may have been 1000 posts of ******** and say someone with 10 posts may be 10 quility posts with good advise.

No, it means that people shouldn't take your advice. I'm not saying that -- that's just what what's his name ^^up^^ there was saying.

Thanks but I know what he was saying and i do not agree with what he said.

 

[brady]

Why would I have to put time in to give VALID advise. My knowledge cannot be judged by post count. Someone with 1k+ post may have been 1000 posts of ******** and say someone with 10 posts may be 10 quility posts with good advise.

I didn't make the rules buddy. Thats just how tech forums word in general.


The hypothetical people that spam posts (to get higher counts) get banned quickly AND a lot of the post whor3s usually only chat in the offtopic, which doesn't count posts anyways. The people with high post counts have been here for a long time, and have proven themselves.

 

[Jam3s-Zer0]

I didn't make the rules buddy. Thats just how tech forums word in general.


The hypothetical people that spam posts (to get higher counts) get banned quickly AND a lot of the post whor3s usually only chat in the offtopic, which doesn't count posts anyways. The people with high post counts have been here for a long time, and have proven themselves.

Sorry to disagree but I do not know of any rules that say, post count + time at forums = you give better advise.

If that is what the majority of TF thinks then they should forget about post count and focus on quality of users posts.

 

[gaara]

That's a load of crap...there isn't anyone here, myself included, who I would consider qualified except for maybe two people who I can think of off the top of my head, and even then, those two people are specialized in regards to their qualifications

Knowing that X is faster than Y is not attributed to a very high level of thinking, ask people WHY X is faster than Y and most can't tell you apart from perhaps at most a very vague description. And this only applies to hardware considering that is what most people here who considered themselves "specialized" in

ok, I've just thought of a third person who would probably be qualified. Knowing how to format is not a qualification especially considering most people (myself included) wouldn't use DOS base or fsdisk commands anymore and simply use windows installation format utilities

 

[brady]

Hypothetical situation is as follows:


You are looking for information on fixing a particular problem with something you know nothing about... Whatever it may be.


Now lets say you decide to visit a forum for this particular thing.


Ok, so now you post your problem in the forum and await an answer. I would feel MUCH better about the information if it was coming from a forum REGULAR who obviously had been there for quite some time as apposed to a new person there that has maybe 200 posts or something...

Remember, the people that USUALLY ask about things around here DON'T know 2 cents about most of the stuff we talk about. Yes, I know there are others who do have a basic understanding of computers or whatever, but those are a little more rare.


So, my point being that WE (as techies ourselves) know that a person with a 200 post count could possibly know MORE info than a person with a 6,000 post count, but for the people that are looking for answers, it is human nature to look for status...