traveltoad said:
I think that part of that comes from the "sorta" new members. Those who have now been around long enough to have some knowledge and are eager to share but don't have the history to know what topics have been discussed multiple times. I myself probably fall into this catagory.
edit: I was refering to the people who reply to the "What tire will fit my truck" questions.
paxton said:
As a relative noob, I did the same, then I got treated like crap. Now I'm doing just fine in this little microcosm.
I don't mind seeing new rehashes of the same old questions, because search can be complicated to get right. Natural language processing is not an easy thing to implement. One bad term can really throw your results off.
Noobs are good for beating. It helps them acclimate. Sure, some people go over the line in terms of language, and I doubt they'd do it so much in person. And sometimes people have too thin skin. But if in the end, you're better off than you were when you came here, then it's all good. And collectively we have a better group.
I feel that I fall in to this catergory of "sorta new". I mean I search and search (sometimes to no avail) and I will gladly bring back an old thread to see about new info. A lot of the "older/wiser Dwebbers" have almost completely rebuilt their Rovers and gained experience. I am still in that process and I am still in the middle of my Rover learning curve. With relatively new ownership of my D1 and performing my own maintenance, upgrades, mods, etc... I am learning a bunch and trying to contribute as I can. When I can't contribute to the tech, then I rarely chime in or trash a thread with off-topic garbage. I try to be as relevant as possible.
I have taken a beating here and there but I still try to soak up as much free info as possible to make my Rover ownership that much more enjoyable.
Sometimes it's nice to get the newb question that reminds me that is something I should look at more closely. (Example: rear drive shaft u-joints. I knew I needed to replace them after my oil change yesterday. So I searched, found out what I need and will be tackling that maintenace soon). Other times it's just obnoxious with all the similar posts right after one another... but then you can count on a Dweb Hall-Monitor to kick the shit out of the little newbs and that topic will fall to the bottom pretty quickly.
As said above... it's not the best, but it's pretty damn good. If you can't take the heat, get out of the fucking kitchen you barfwad newbie cocksmokers!
