Silk Road forums
Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: JackBlue on March 15, 2013, 03:01 pm
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I would like to see it changed so Newbies are allowed to post reviews in the Rumor Mill section of the forums.
I understand why the newbie section was added to the forum. Newbies are always an irritation to devoted, avid forum participants. They ask questions that have been answered before and sometimes have seriously bad forum manners. Wanting to stick them in a ghetto until the learn to behave is understandable even though I don't necessarily think it's the best way to teach new forum participants how to behave. They aren't going to learn it from other newbies.
But that's beside the point. The problem is that requiring 50 posts has really hurt participation in the Rumor Mill review threads. Newbies may be newbies on the SR forums, but that doesn't mean they are new to SR. Some forum newbies have been active SR buyers for a long time, but just have no interest in forum discussions. And many new SR members are connoisseurs of the products they purchase and are perfectly qualified to write reviews of vendors products. But if these people aren't interested in the other forum sections, they'll never have enough posts to write reviews. Since the change in the policy, I've had many people offer to write reviews of my products and they can't.
Could the Rumor Mill be added to the Newbie Forum as places where newbies can post? As the only place to write vendor reviews, it doesn't seem right to only allow people who like forum discussions to write reviews.