Know Your Mods - Durga

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Ever oldie CEan is going to miss the 'technical CE' that we had built and we all understand that we're losing out on the technical nature of the forum. I too, sometimes believe whether we're gradually moving towards turning CE into a content 'sharing' site. It's always been our dream to make CE so useful to all engineers that they won't have to look elsewhere for any of their professional, technical & study related needs.
  
  @Durga: It would be nice to bring back the days when we had more technical discussions than chit-chats. I believe initiatives like "best technical thread" award would prompt all our CEans to focus more on technical sections. Do you have any ideas that can be worked out, without putting restrictions elsewhere?
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  Sahithi Pallavi

  Nice Interview 😀
  
  

  I had thought of leaving CE over 3 times now. This time around it was Ramani Sir’s small talk which pulled me in again.

  How?
  
  
  @Biggie : Yes Biggie, start some good initiatives, make the forum activity booster. And one more thing, we were tired of reading lots of useless posts 😔
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  @Pallavi: Isn't it everyone's responsibility to contribute useful posts? Is it that the quality posts are declining because there's no incentive?
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  Sahithi Pallavi

  Apologies for spamming this thread.
  
  Yes I agree Biggie, its the responsibility of all the CEans to contribute useful posts. But who are doing this? lot of CEans are trying to boost their post count. What makes a CEan to look over his/her post count - titles? If yes, I have a suggestion like - How about offering user titles based on the started thread count?
  
  
  

  Is it that the quality posts are declining because there's no incentive?

  I can not say the quality posts are declining only because there's no incentive, there might be various reasons. But I can say we will definitely get quality posts and we can surely boost our forum activity if we have incentives. Isn't it?
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  @Durga: Your comments are expected 😀 .
  
  What if we remove the titles? 😀
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  Sahithi Pallavi

  How about offering the 'user titles' and 'user name colors' based on the started thread count excluding chit-chat section? We can boost out the activity too, Isn't it?
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  durga ch

  ahem!
  There are many forums where any kind of incentives arenot offered, still they strive to be the best ones.
  Posts good or bad are contributed by CEans only. Everyone is equally culprit in posting unnnessary details.
  A small task - go to user profiel ( your own user profile) and click on - 'find posts by this person'
  all the posts made by each of us would be populated. Now surf atleast thrugh first 5 pages and count number of useful and useless posts made. The ratio will make us understand its we who spam, not anyone else
  Anyways, its again- I am like a social worker in the question asked. I can only suggest.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  The question's been asked many times. What should we do to improve the quality of posts? In earlier days, there were only few CEans who were super-active and they all contributed awesome posts. We need to find our heroes in our existing team 😀
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  lovejeet

  @biggie- sorry to say, but you are pretty late in recognizing the declining standard of the site....... sorry if i m too rude...
  the thing is, too much activities in chit-chat section and loong thread have turned the mind of the many cean's..
  cean's are now just running behind to increase their post count, so as to go higher in the rank, no matter what the quality of the content is..., so better decide their rank on the basis of likes they get........ sorry again if i m wrong....
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  lovejeet

  @biggie- sorry to say, but you are pretty late in recognizing the declining standard of the site....... sorry if i m too rude...
  the thing is, too much activities in chit-chat section and loong thread have turned the mind of the many cean's..
  cean's are now just running behind to increase their post count, so as to go higher in the rank, no matter what the quality of the content is..., so better decide their rank on the basis of likes they get........ sorry again if i m wrong....

  I don't think I'm late in recognizing it. Everyone including me and Mods and editors are aware of it since long time. We've asked for feedback from all the members for a long time. I look at the discussion threads started in CS, Electrical, Chemical, Civil sections - and all I see pretty regular discussions.
  
  As Durga said - it's the collective responsibility. Everyone's pointing out that the quality of discussions is declining. No one's taking a lead to start contributing quality threads. The chit chat section is an integral part of the community. I don't think people are after ranks. If that's true, we'll eliminate titles.
  
  How many of the CEans have started quality threads in technical discussion in recent past?
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  Ankita Katdare

  Everyone's pointing out that the quality of discussions is declining. No one's taking a lead to start contributing quality threads.

  This is what I think too. I hope all the CEans who want the forum to thrive & flourish will work on this (beginning today).
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  Harshad Italiya

  The_Big_K

  @Pallavi: Isn't it everyone's responsibility to contribute useful posts? Is it that the quality posts are declining because there's no incentive?

  As compare to other forums CE has given lot of Incentives time by time CE had arranged various contest and given incentive to winner. Last one was On CE DAY, Crazy Engineer has given TEE to good number of Ceans.
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  Ankita Katdare

  Moreover, could someone define exactly what kind of 'technical discussions' should be initiated such that they are useful and go with the theme of crazy-engineers?
  
  *expecting lots of responses over this*
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  yadavundertaker mohit

  may be all the engineers are lazy like me to take lead..
  
  i would suggest that the title should be given by the moderator of the particular section not on the basis of number of the counts or number of the threads.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  I'm not sure how giving titles based on number of thread makes sense. We are talking about starting quality threads. If we award titles based on number of threads, we might get a flux of chit-chat threads.
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  ShrinkDWorld

  The_big_K
  best technical thread

  Nice idea big. It definitely increase technical discussion..
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  ShrinkDWorld

  My suggestions are->
  1) create a color code for member name on basis of like he received.
  2) Make a group like 'CE Team', "CE Experts" , "CE founder", etc and to join this group decide some criteria which pull the members for good post.
  3) Take a voting for Best Moderate, Best Expert , most helpful guy etc. at regular interval.
  4) Count thread started (only those which are currently open). Close all spam thread.
  5) Do not count post in chill chat section.
  
  Shall we start rep power system?? i saw it somewhere.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Even the like system has been abused. Lots of CEans have been clicking on like button just for the heck of it. If we start offering reputation on the basis of likes, then there would be 'I like your posts, you like mine' game to get better titles.
  
  Why not just scrap the titles altogether?
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  durga ch

  I have a suggestion to improve content-
  All college goers can post their academic doubts . People who are aware of the answers will answer. Incase you dont get doubts, you either understand it 100% or you understand it 0%
  
  Contests , nominations and other might help . but not in long term. by posting your academic queries - their s a high chance of attracting good discussions.
  
  Techincal discussions dont explicitly mean - R&D stuff, it in general means anything which can impart techincal knowledge.
  
  Ranks - let them be as they are , its ok. I think compressing a spring too much would lead it to bounch back futher more. Let's not overdo it. Let's do only what is required.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  @Durga: Perfect! Now big question: How do we encourage users to post their academic queries? We are already working on the rewards part and contests and we'll have few contests this year.
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  Gurjeet Singh

  Biggie Can we move this discussion to other Thread as its worth to be discuss there:
  
  In my suggestion what we can do we can start the thread by making a specific colour code which decide how important the thread ..like we send the mail with high and low importance likely we can start the thread .and ya i am second in favour remove the titles ,if Ceans are now increasing their count just for the sake of title.and for the quality threads we need to improve.
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  durga ch

  we can answer how much ever we can 😀. only then they will be encouraged to ask more.
  Not answering their questions but gving away goodies wont help.
  We have many CS students, few mechies, few comm students who can ask questions and mutualy get answers. else, they can do a combined research to find it. CE as of now is majority of students, so making it student friendly will help. As time passes we can keep updating our process
  
  
  This will work only if people are inquisitive enough to know the answer.
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  Ankita Katdare

  I agree with Durga & Biggie.
  On the similar lines as mentioned above, I started this: #-Link-Snipped-#
  Please don't let this initiative die. It needs a group effort. We have to at least post reply on each others thread.
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  ISHAN TOPRE

  All points have been taken. Except one.
  Let people explain what they think about a particular thing.
  
  We can start a number on threads like "lets discuss nanotechnology" Once regualar members can discuss and post some good posts the others will follow suit. (just decide on one topic and make it a focus for a few days at least)
  
  The other is "best thread thing"
  
  A technical activity like project section which I wanted to do only gets comments like 'Awesome' and 'nice idea'. (I have stopped it shortly due to my laziness though 😐)
  
  Now most importantly: Good to know about you Durga. 😀