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How do you figure that?
Why would you not admit to be a newbie?
If I post something, and you could not tell that I’m a newbie, heck that would make you as stupid to the subject as me! (No ovens) I think that it would help people to overcome the fear of asking a stupid question.
And to clarify something, (this is for those of us where English is not the native language) when I say stupid that does not have anything to do with being dumb.
Just guessing... Anyway, how do you separate the noob questions from the others? With what criteria? :(
Rally2000,
Well everybody is newbie in the begining and it's no shame to ask even questions you think they're silly .
A Person Who Asks A Question Is A Fool For Five Minutes, A Person Who Doesn't Is A Fool Forever ...
:)
manavo11!
That would be easy, each and every one of us should know where to post a Question.
Or where they belong, VB.Net or VB.Net Newbie’s.
Take a look and see! Go into the Forum and look how many posts you see that are posted by Newbie’s (And I’m not talking about those that belittle the fact that they don’t know by claiming that there new) again, (no Ovens to anyone). I’m talking real Newbie, someone that hardly knows how to do the “Hello World” App.
Take me for instance, I started to learn VB6 about a little over a Year ago (not full time either) and then I posted a question about witch version to learn, 6 months later, I just wanted some opinions! After hearing what some of the members had to say I decided to quit VB6 then and there and go with .net instead. Now! Here I am again almost at the same place I was over a year ago. To make a long story short, I don’t belong in a forum that talks about “what I think is advanced programming”. That is how I feel about it!
Fact remains! I feel highly uncomfortable to post questions because it seems that they are low grade compared to the other Questions asked.
Pirate!
I absolutely agree but that just don’t seem to help much, heck maybe It’s an ego thing. I don’t know!!
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Well I suppose. It's just that we'll get a lot of double posting... Just don't feel shy... You aren't the only one ;)
Why newbie ask questions ???? simply because they have no patience to read furthur , they don't even give their minds chance to figure simple things . They just jump to the IDE and start coding with very basic knowlege . When you read a book VB.NET for example , then you'd realize that you shouldn't have asked some questions , but again ask anytime anyhow as long as you did your best to avoid asking by reading or even trying to think . :)
Umm... it doesn't matter what the questions are like. There are tons of silly questions out there. I like answering to the easy ones (meaning: easy for me). And I have things to learn, since I have learned VB as a hobby for... six years by now. And yes, I've had months of pauses. If you don't know and can't find out yourself, ask. Atleast you get a change for an answer. And besides, who knows you here? Even if you ask a "stupid" question, it will not harm you at all to get the answer.
There is the other way around: I give sometimes stupid answers :rolleyes:
I suppose everyone has there way of looking at things, and I don't disagree with any of it.
In closing I have to say something.
Pirate!
While I do agree that most want to run before they learn to walk, but also try to look at it from a different prospective, some of us are quicker, or learn something period, by looking at existing code. Myself, I have noticed that like reading on the msdn website sometimes confuses me more that what it’s helping. That is where the example code really helps, sometimes it is just easier to look at code than to read for half a day.
Anyway, Rally, try starting a new thead with a poll and see what people respond (since some people won't have seen it here) and make sure you PM Brad to get his attention to this as you probably aren't the only shy member we have ;)
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Yes mendhakQuote:
Originally posted by mendhak
I'll add what I mentioned in there:
Improve your search engine rank.
The only page with keywords is the index.php page:
This isn't going to help one bit. Even Visual Basic isn't in there! A couple keywords I can suggest are:
Visual Basic
vb
vb6
mendhak
HTML
ASP
XHTML
XML
VB.NET
C
C++
C#
ASP.NET
ADO.NET
Chit chat
All the other pages don't have any keywords.
Visualbasicforum.com has a lot of users because that site appears on search engines at a higher rank, vbforums.com does not.
The more users we get, the more we retain.
This forum isn't indexed by google i am not sure if vbforums can be indexed invasion board does get indexed by google,
CGJ
ummm, I'm loopless.Quote:
Originally posted by cgj
invasion board does get indexed by google
Invasion Board????
What the heck is that!
"Get" Indexed???
I believe, at least the way it sounds, the customer adds keywords to google.
Google can't spend time doing it for their customers.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Something Else
I believe, at least the way it sounds, the customer adds keywords to google. Google can't spend time doing it for their customers.
:confused:
I believe that Google has bots/spiders that go through the web to index and cache pages. The rankings of sites are based on a lot of information found by these bots. One thing that can help with a site's rankings is the number of other sites that link back to the forum. Keywords also help as do a number of other things.
So, everyone should link to VBForums from their own sites :D
Brad!
and be dragged down with you? No chance :pQuote:
Originally posted by brad jones
So, everyone should link to VBForums from their own sites :D
Did that way back. You should thank me. :DQuote:
Originally posted by brad jones
So, everyone should link to VBForums from their own sites :D
http://merri.net
See? Its in all pages. And its been there like forever. :D
Maybe we should start a VB Forums Ring.
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Originally posted by MartinLiss
Maybe we should start a VB Forums Ring.
Martin is trying to draw in the vast Hobbit population.
Never heard of it...
A webring is basically a group of sites, the webmasters of which belong to a certain online community.
Webrings usually consist of sites all related to that certain topic, but since a lot of us have diverse websites, it could just be the webmasters being part of the community.
I believe it's indicated by a certain logo placed on the website.
Someone make a cool VBRing logo?
Sounds smart. Why don't you start it?
Webrings suck because to be in one, you have to advertise it. So add another crappy ass ad to the forum.Quote:
Besides, I have never meet or seen a person actually check out other sites within a webring. Usually, no one cares.
Everyone cares about the ulmightly google, so VBForums.com needs to get linked on as many sites as possible.
I've brought it up with Brad and the other Moderators.Quote:
Originally posted by manavo11
Sounds smart. Why don't you start it?
Good :)
But not this one, please:
http://www.vbwire.com/Images/vbforums.gif
I'm not the most active member, but I've been here a couple years and have found it to be the best.
Two comments:
1. The search needs improvement.
2. The site has been incredibly slow lately. Every time I go to a new page, my browser turns completely white for a 2 or 3 seconds....it is really annoying. Oh yeah, I'm using the latest IE6 on a T3 at work. This site is the slowest site that I go to.
But I still come....b/c it is the best!