Pissed off with the same questions all the time

[JShadzi at aol.com]

In all its infutility, I couldn't agree with you more, I can relate...CIS...blahhh...lets talk about EFI...

Javad

In a message dated Thu, 8 Nov 2001  2:06:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, Huw Powell <audi at mediaone.net> writes:

> It all sounds so easy on paper...
>
> I actually *started* my web site so I could avoid answering questions over
> and over again (and to experiment with stupid html tricks before wrecking
> my humanspeakers site with them!), that is, once I reached the point where
> I *could* answer questions.
>
> In the end, while there is useful stuff there, it morphed into this huge
> conglomeration of weird and strange custom stuff I did - there is a
> critical point at which you need to catch people for this info - when
> they've learned it well but before they have moved along and are bored with
> it.  I have seen many people burn out on explaining the same things over
> and over again, and drift away, heck, I did it once or twice myself.  New
> people turn up and take their place, but the "institutional memory" is weak
> and some great stuff in people's heads (and in the archives...) gets lost.
>
> Example of what we need: I know CIS-E inside out and backwards, at least as
> implemented on the 85-87 small Audis.  I have a file on my site that
> supposedly will be a complete A-Z troubleshooting guide for the system,
> prioritised by cost and likelihood of failure.  Trouble is, it will take
> hours and hours of writing and thinking and new photos to finish it.  And I
> have absolutely no use for it since I know what would be in it... although
> I must thank the one lister who actually sent me $5 because, I guess, it
> helped him even in its incomplete state!
>
> And here we are, still telling each other not to use the "spare" fuse to
> replace the blown one.
>
> just my .02, devalued by burnout and inflated by ego...
>
>
>
> >We could remedy this by educating a few people on how to use it, and make
> >them "moderators" for certain areas. This is already the format I was
> >thinking about. That way, people could send their favorite "tips" to the
> >moderator and boom, the moderators would handle it. Yes, this is a lot of
> >work for a moderator, but really, only in the beginning. After we get a
> >critical mass of stuff in a particular section, that answers about 85% of
> >the questions and the "new" stuff, well, hopefully that moderator will be
> >an active participant (lurker or no) on the list and post things he/she
> >sees fit into the knowledge base.
>
> Huw Powell
>
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>
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