Where Have All The Good Posters Gone? Anyone Else Noticed?

[Penelope Stopit]

I now understand why many of the knowledgeable posters no longer give this section the time of day
On the one hand you have people posting more and more garbage on subjects that they obviously don't know much about.
On the other hand those with the knowledge are pissed off with all this crap and have moved on
The idiots are destroying what could be a good forum and there doesn't seem to be any techy moderators to sort the crap out from the good
Another big problem is that the idiots will continue posting crap and keep attempting to piss people off
The reality of it is that the idiots are causing much damage here and the moderators are unable to grasp whats going on
Personally I don't agree with censoreship or the moderating of forums but as this forum is moderated I also don't agree with the fact that idiots are being given a free reign here and those good contributors seem to be moving away
A sad state of affairs

Has anyone else noticed a decline here?

[Penelope Stopit]

Interesting replies here, I have learnt a little
I posted this not long after reading a locked topic about a very experienced engine man being banned from here
The reason I posted this is because I have noticed a decline in good info being posted recently and more idiotic posts appearing, having taken a look at who was not posting as much as usual, I then searched Google for a PH posters name that hadn't appeared here recently and ended up here at the locked topic about the banning of Puma the engine man
I am well and truly cheesed off that knowledgeable posters are leaving or being banned from here when the idiot posters will happily get someone banned or take pleasure in messing about on here day in day out
Such is life hey, lets hope things pick up in the not too distant future
Please all of you, keep posting

[Penelope Stopit]

Zapho
Good post this one, it makes a lot of sense, I never considered the money side of things and moderators not being too concerned about idiots posting here
Yes, splitting the forum up a little would certainly help, the idiots could be kept at bay
I hope you enjoy your stay here and are able to contribute in solving some techy problems for those that need help
A word of warning, if you are of much knowledge and get pissed off with idiots posting here, be very careful with how you react to those idiots.
For some unknown reason, the idiots have a free reign here and the techies are liable to be warned off if reacting to those idiots in the wrong manner

[Penelope Stopit]

ZaphodBeeblebrox1 said:

Penelope Stopit said:

I hope you enjoy your stay here and are able to contribute in solving some techy problems for those that need help.

Can't see this sign on lasting long - lol.

Penelope Stopit said:

A word of warning, if you are of much knowledge and get pissed off with idiots posting here, be very careful with how you react to those idiots.

The moderators have made their position clear. Newbies coming in and posting nonsense are fine but technically experienced people with 10 plus years of service over thousands of posts are banned in an instant and pursued to the death. C'est la vie.

ZaphodBeeblebrox He is from a planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, and is a "semi-half-cousin" of Ford Prefect, with whom he "shares three of the same mothers". Because of "an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine", his direct ancestors from his father are also his direct descendants

Surely being related to a Ford Prefect will give you a good start