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I am mean. I want to keep myself updated. Reason below. (Finding good deals was never intended at first, since I didn't expect anything such, even though that's a sticky in mind for everyone to hop here again.)

I am lonely. I miss my school days a lot, everything else is quite boring. I parted too quickly from my school and went bit far for next studies, missed all the fun that I had kept dreaming about.. quite depressing. Years have gone, I still can't blur it. But now, I try to find some compassion here as tech and somewhat nerdy stuff is the next topic in my brain. sorry for plugging a thesis on myself. lol. Anyways.

It's comfortable here. Thank you mods, I don't have to do lot of homework writing "quality posts". I mean, yeah we(members) are not here for helping build techenclave a $$$ fetching outfit and a quality destination for googlers. Maybe admins should actually focus on these points, they are good. Oh snap! Slow progress is fine, aren't we too slow? Is progress an aim anyway? I haven't listed any factors I am considering, but if you don't feel it already, you may not get it.

Now, I wish there were more seeder, participating in the manner that their contribution matters to all, not a mean and leecher like me.

I wish there was no "Get New Posts" or "Get Daily Posts", to have some fun _actually_ participating(those two links hide "Post New Thread" link in the other world). Maybe because I found myself more involved in that kind of environment sometime back. Or possibly find a hybrid solution. Before someone argues on how good it is "for me"(you), aren't you mean?

I would suggest some restructuring for the website. At least something which is unlike the fact that you set a community easily on autopilot after buying vB, a domain and hosting + some community kick start. Leaving the rest considerations for the admin/webmaster team to ponder upon.

I wish the top logo linked to the forum index. (huuuuuhhhhhhh!?)
 
If wishes were horses :lol:

At least something which is unlike the fact that you set a community easily on autopilot after buying vB, a domain and hosting + some community kick start. Leaving the rest considerations for the admin/webmaster team to ponder upon.
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A big +1 from my side, but some of the issues I raised have been classified as not very important, so no more rants from me
 
Gurpartap Singh said:
It's comfortable here. Thank you mods, I don't have to do lot of homework writing "quality posts". I mean, yeah we(members) are not here for helping build techenclave a $$$ fetching outfit and a quality destination for googlers. Maybe admins should actually focus on these points, they are good. Oh snap! Slow progress is fine, aren't we too slow? Is progress an aim anyway? I haven't listed any factors I am considering, but if you don't feel it already, you may not get it.
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Right on the spot. I think that TE we need more revolutionary threads that exist only on TE (I know there are few). We already have great members here, we just need them to go crazy with their experiments. I suggest a competition that we could organize (prizes are secondary). We could have teams set up that include people within the same region who could meet once/twice a week to discuss the project and make advancement. The progress of the project could be posted on TE. This may not be very concrete discription but I hope people will get a vague idea. What say the others?
 
I'll be honest.. your post content flew over my head :ashamed:

Could you be a bit more clear about what you meant?
 
I feel what you feel and its true. We at staff have thought about it, we have talked about it. Either the staff can do it themselves, article by article, or we can hire someone to do it, again article by article. Time and money, we dont have either.

Now to get the members to participate more productively is not an easy task too. There is just not enough motivation to do it. It takes effort. The most prominent motivator being the green dots, which of course loses its sheen when you get to a level where people begin to recognize you. You tell me what will motivate you to be a seeder.

We use the word restructuring which is an umbrella term; can we be more specific. Throw around some random ideas, and maybe more importantly involve ourselves towards the execution.

Even if you do come out with a plan, the execution to large extent would depend on the admins who again dont have time. You cant get any outside (outside the usergroup admin) help coz.. 'dont touch my code' syndrome would strike.

Nevertheless dont let this thread die, I moved this to feedback section coz it deserved some discussion. Its not that we dont read such threads or dont discuss about it. We do feel helpless to a large extent.

On the last line, yes I feel the same too, and for obvious reasons. I hope I dont get fired from staff for saying what I felt.
 
For quite a long time i havent taken any camps in a discussion.

While we always rant about something missing and this is not upto the mark and every thing like that, but the biggest point is that whether we introspect ourselves, about our contribution to a community.

Who so ever says that mods / admin or team TE should do something must take into notice that the people behind TE are also busy in their personal / social / family / professional / education lives.

There are so many deals and so many gadgets are being happening on this community forums, how many show offers have bothered to review to his / her ability the product being in question?

How many have put quality posts in solving others queries and also about other things that matter.

Secondly, what i have always observed during my online stint of about last 4-5 years that people hear from othere about a new website or forums join it for some reason and then start participating, at som point of time what happens that they become busy with other priority things and then they put participation on hold. Mean while people joining keeps increasing and it becomes crowd.

So to make crowd creative you have to put some extra efforts as being a part of community.

To the OP no offenses meant but you have done some fabulous contribution to this community but as it happens with everyone you too also getting bored with simillar kind of activity syndrome over the net.

If you still need to pamper the site then dug out your brain and find some creative things to post be it technical or non technical and you will be recharged.
my little over 2 cents :P

ps if some thing which i have infered wrong from the highly literary post of OP then pardon my understanding.
 
I'm tired of screaming these points over and over at lenghth , but here goes

General talk and the market are choking the tech sections big time. Its like becoming a fish market in here.

- sometimes I wonder if this is geekenclave rather than techenclave. The decisions made regarding the content here sometimes makes me wonder if the mods/admins want this to be a portals for geeks/techies to hang out, rather than as a tech forum(I'm not being sarcastic here, both these have great potential) . If this is the direction in which techenclave is to be steered, then the way we're doing it is fine. On the other hand, if quality tech content is desired more over this being a cool place to hang out , read news, spam and post all day for geeks, then some changes need to be made

- clamp down on General talk and reduce scope like was done earlier. I really dont think we need more spam threads - besides, we have funenclave, dont we ? ( some of the mods may differ with me on this one)

-If possible, move market out to a seperate forum/portal(VbClassified or something similar :ashamed:?). If we could do it once with Funenclave, why not once again? This need not be as a seperate website, but as a seperate portal withim techenclave.com.

to be honest, the only thing that keeps me from posting any good content ( if at all ) is that it gets drowned within all the spam and bumps, that there is no motivation. sure , it might get posted to the front page, but new posts is where the action really is (at least IMHO)
 
Well moving market is a bad idea IMHO ... i know we needshow motivation to our fellow members to post some geeky news and not just spamming am enjoying every bit of TE but same questions are being asked again and again .. and Get new posts is a must for me By that i only i get 2 know and answer queries in office...just my 2 cents
 
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General talk and the market are choking the tech sections big time. Its like becoming a fish market in here.

- sometimes I wonder if this is geekenclave rather than techenclave. The decisions made regarding the content here sometimes makes me wonder if the mods/admins want this to be a portals for geeks/techies to hang out, rather than as a tech forum(I'm not being sarcastic here, both these have great potential) . If this is the direction in which techenclave is to be steered, then the way we're doing it is fine. On the other hand, if quality tech content is desired more over this being a cool place to hang out , read news, spam and post all day for geeks, then some changes need to be made

- clamp down on General talk and reduce scope like was done earlier. I really dont think we need more spam threads - besides, we have funenclave, dont we ? ( some of the mods may differ with me on this one)

-If possible, move market out to a seperate forum/portal(VbClassified or something similar :ashamed:?). If we could do it once with Funenclave, why not once again? This need not be as a seperate website, but as a seperate portal withim techenclave.com.

to be honest, the only thing that keeps me from posting any good content ( if at all ) is that it gets drowned within all the spam and bumps, that there is no motivation. sure , it might get posted to the front page, but new posts is where the action really is (at least IMHO)
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The funny thing is I spend tons of time in the PC peripherals sub-forum - the section I enjoy the most - and hardly venture into or get distracted by the Market or Gen Talk sections. I really fail to understand how people are getting distracted by those sections? Why don't people just check the sections they're interested in? Or is it because of the New Posts bringing in posts from those sections as well?

GT needs to be put under reign a bit - agreed, but it really was intended as a no holds barred zone. Again i'm really confused as to how a bump or a spam in general talk reflects in another section? :huh:

Making the market section a separate entity doesn't make sense. If its a separate entity, it would mean a fresh member base leaving the present members in a lurch. If we carry on the same TE member base, it wouldn't be a separate entity then would it?
 
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