Woh!
Relax, Patty! I understand your frustration. In fact, Ash & I spend considerable time moving threads, changing thread titles and banning ad-spammers.
Here are my thoughts :-
Frankly speaking I do not understand why people cannot understand this forum. It is easy, we are all doing engineering and can think, its not that people here have low IQ s, so whats the problem.
Even I get surprised when people tell me the site is difficult to understand. Probably, most of the members are new to the concept of online forums. We follow a standard forum system which is quite popular all over the world.
There are two things which we can do -
1. Come up with video tutorials for the new members.
2. Simplify the forums structure. I've been working on this for quite some time. I hope to be able to come up with something concrete in few days time.
Half the new posts are give me project ideas. Hell man, there are so many project ideas already written by serious members of this forum, you just need to read the posts. Are they too busy to even go through them.
This is very unfortunate. It even goes against the idea which led to creation of CrazyEngineers. But, we all will have to deal with it. If we must; blame the education system which leaves no scope for creativity. Most of the students want ready-made project reports, codes, presentations etc. They aren't even willing to put in any effort.
This said, this opens up a business opportunity for us. We've talented minds over here. Let's come up with presentations and reports and make them available to students at some suitable price. We'll discuss about this some other time.
Till then our "Project Ideas & Seminar Topics" section will continue to handle all such queries. Fortunately, it gives us lot of traffic as well 😀
The introductions that many newbies are giving lately is awesome. It is a hi guys or something like that, close, and many have introduced themselves everywhere except the introductions.
I think I know why this happens. Probably, the concept of "CrazyEngineers" doesn't get well through new members. Most of the new members think Computer Engineers should only interact with computer engineers, electrical engineers with electrical engineers etc. Thanks to social networking sites which actually promote such groups.
We may write a better introduction on the top of forums. I was even thinking of coming up with a short page on our portal that describes everything in short. Once any new user registers, we mail him/her the link to that page.
These are all my ideas/thoughts. Waiting for everyone's response!