Hi, John. I'd like to acknowledge that you are free to discuss MLO with anyone you want, anywhere you want, whenever you want. If you want to create an MLO Newbies discussion on Reddit, nobody can stop you. If you want to exchange your screenshots on Tumblr, good luck to you. The question is, will it create more help than harm.
When I was a newbie two long years ago, when I couldn't figure something out, I wanted to talk with somebody who knew the answer. It sounds to me as though the newbie group would exclude those people by design. So the newbie who can't figure something out would have access to, what? People who would commiserate about how badly it sucks not to know the answer? Or maybe a cohort of indignant people who could compete to see who can be the most vitriolic? I'm sorry if I sound disrespectful; I really do respect newbies and the issues that confront them. I just don't understand the value of isolating the discussion from the people most likely to offer help. I also understand that as a senior citizen in this realm, I may lack insight into the unique needs of the brand new user. But, John, I would argue that you do too. You have begun to use concepts from the user manual, which right away disqualifies you from any further claims to be a newbie. You have also created at least one reasonable and well-justified enhancement request, this also distances you from the true lamb-in-the-woods newbies. The more time goes by, the more you will find yourself wanting to say to the actual newbies, "hey shut up and let me explain it to you." And then two years will have gone by and you will be a senior citizen like me. Will you then throw yourself out of the newbies group? Last question: People come to this forum because the developer recommends that they do so. Unless the developer makes a similar recommendation for your newbies group, how will the newbies find you? The top 5% most self-sufficient might find you on Google or Yahoo, these are the people who don't really need a newbies group. The rest will follow the (small) crowd to this forum which will either offer them the help they need, or not. Will they find what they need? If you and your cohort stay here, the answer is more likely to be "yes"/ -Dwight -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/03a786b5-4afc-44d8-b6e9-aa0f669f87e2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
