Symbioquine
Solar Enthusiast
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2021
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This is a great forum where folks seem eager to help each other and share their learnings, experiences, etc. It is awesome to see such a mix of knowledgeable folks and beginners trying to learn...
However, we see the same questions (or minor variations thereof) super frequently. Often the questions are already answered very thoroughly in existing threads and in easily available resources - either those hosted here with the forum or common ones like Victron's Wiring Unlimited or Blue Sea's fuse/wiring selection charts.
I guess my meta question here is, what is the big picture end game? Does the database of historical threads grow indefinitely? Is it a good use of time for the knowledgeable folks (including those who've learned through this forum) to keep repeating the same information for the sake of providing a welcoming/encouraging experience (and maybe spoon-feeding beginners)?
Maybe it would make sense to bifurcate some of the purposes? i.e. Split:
However, we see the same questions (or minor variations thereof) super frequently. Often the questions are already answered very thoroughly in existing threads and in easily available resources - either those hosted here with the forum or common ones like Victron's Wiring Unlimited or Blue Sea's fuse/wiring selection charts.
I guess my meta question here is, what is the big picture end game? Does the database of historical threads grow indefinitely? Is it a good use of time for the knowledgeable folks (including those who've learned through this forum) to keep repeating the same information for the sake of providing a welcoming/encouraging experience (and maybe spoon-feeding beginners)?
Maybe it would make sense to bifurcate some of the purposes? i.e. Split:
- Novel free-form discussion, show-and-tell, and community-related topics stay on the forum
- Question-and-answer style topics get moved to something more like StackOverflow and aggressively groomed/deduplicated/gamified