Although I can appreciate the spiriit in which you comment is
meant. There are many people where learning (especially about
topics new to them as photography and digital photography) is more
of a iterative process and not one by which reading through a
manual provides a full understanding.
In my short-time in this forum ( 5 months) the demeanor and candor
of the participants has continued to slide downhill from a total
atmosphere of support and learning to simply posting RTFM (or in
your case RTBM).
What can we do to recoup the forums of only a few short months ago?
Not a bash but a collective plea...
-Randy
i can relate to this problem. i've been doing stained glass for
over 19 years. i've gotten all sorts of questions. mostly easy
stuff. and when someone emailed me i helped them. later on i put
together a big web site to address all the problems that i've
helped with.
but what really starts to happen, on all the forums and groups i
belong to are the same exact questions every time. no one ever does
a search, or they expect people to look it up for them. and it
begins to get boring.
composition on the other hand, is not as easy as a book. certain
problems that may have been discussed in the manual, may be served
better in a live forum with everyone's feed back. but when the same
question is asked over and over and over and over, it really starts
to get to the people who have been posting these answers all along.
this forum has one of the best search fuctions i've ever seen. and
yet no one seems to know how to use it. alot of information has
already been gone over.
so what happens, is: someone joins a group. they try to help out.
then discover that basically all the questions are the same. and
whats worse is that the camera's become out dated and fewer people
are there to help. so there will be a natural decline to the group.
but mostly people need to ask the questions. as you get better you
have less questions. and it's back to the begginers questions, and
the loop begins again.
---Mike Savad
