Useful posting!

I agree with you. Even though we are an engineers website, people have to be reminded of simple rules (No SMS, Provide appropriate title, don't ask for free lunch etc.).

What you are suggesting cannot be taken care of by making amendments to the rules. Otherwise, our computer science section would not get questions solely about computer troubleshooting.

Quality discussion topics will attract quality posts. Any suggestions for starting quality posts on CE?

PS: Of course, there's no offense. Keep your suggestions coming.

Suggestions:
1. Members should search the forum for the topic, they are going to post. If the information is already present, they shouldn't post it. If they post there thread should be locked. If we are reading the same type of threads, then we are not improving at all. We should move on & forbid stagnation.
2. No duplicate posting. If someone said earlier what you are going to post, then you shouldn't post it again, its of no use, you are just increasing your posts.

These steps will not increase the quality of posts, but they will increase the ratio of quality/quantity.
Quality of posts solely depends on the quality of members . To improve the quality, members should be encouraged to post quality threads.
In fact the rating system should be based on the quality & usefulness of threads & posts the member is submitting, instead on the no. of posts .

That is an existing issue with all forums. It is a fine ballance as forums that have been around for some time, in many areas there is not anything much new to add so in order to stay active old topics will be updated and reoccur. plus policing the issue is very difficult and you tend to get many user posts of "do a search" which also does not add to the quality. It is tough! You have some great ideas and thoughts, keep it up.

hi VIK,

yup! there had been many attempts made to increase the quality of posts, one of it was known as the awesome thread contest, as well if you have noticed( given that you have been quite active 😁) we have CEan of the month every month to reward best contributing member for a month.It doesnot generally depend on number of posts, it depends on the quality of the posts made.

More active participation with quality posts is needed understood, but members as well need to understand that 😀

We'd have loved to have quality posts, but then its disheartening to see free lunch seekers. We rely on those few members who keep the value quotient of the forums high.

i agreed by vik...,one idea i can suggest is that we should sent a notification ..through a message to newbie.as just he /she registered.and to follow strictly.quality should be maintained..

I too agree with VIK

This is a nice idea , but students join (most of the ) for projects.

They dont read any rules or anything , they just register and post a query asking for projects.

Than happens everywhere!!

But indeed its a nice suggestion 😀

One way of increasing the quality of posts is increasing the quality of members. No offense to anyone :shifty:, by quality I mean experience.

What I mean is, right now a large chunk of our members are students most of whom are seeking help. We should aim at bringing engineers who've been working for a little while into our ranks in a big way. This will bring experience into the forum, which is bound to increase the quality of posts.

Even I joined the forum as I wanted help with my final year project. (But unlike some members who leave if they don't get an answer, I stuck around.)

Once again, no offense to anyone..

No there is no offense meant. This thread is meant for constructive feedback. Starting January, we are taking up an ambitious project of reaching nearly every engineering college in India. We may pick up lot of talented engineers from colleges. If successful (which I'm sure) we'll expand our project in different countries around the world.

Secondly, we need to popularize CE among experienced professionals. Lot of currently active members will be joining workforce next year and they can do a great job of bringing in folks from offices 😀

Each one of us should be focused on getting quality content on CE forums - so that all experienced folks are attracted. 😀

On the Internet, 'Content is the king!'. We need a steady focus on that!