I hear you, but perhaps my language isn't conveying what I mean.
I don't want all newbies blocked, just those who are somewhat lazy and want to lean on the forum way too hard.
The quiz would not block all newbies until they are not newbies anymore, but just be a short hurdle that will be educational in that it will tell them the midi/audio thing, and a few ways to answer their own questions quicker.
It should be like Phone a friend or ask the experts on Millionare, you relay on it when you really don't have too many options, not for every question you have or even before you try thinking about the answer.
Many newbies don't deserve that title, I would say the majority know how to get their answers. It is just the few that come here with the attitude of lazyness. So a few basics and some resources will set them straight.
it probably won't happen, but it really should, because this place is in danger of being newbie only, then you'll only have the crappy search feature to read past posts,
It wouldn't be the same without newbies, but it wouldn't be the same without the people who really know the nitty gritty of it. MPC 3000 saved me lots of money by telling me about the tact switches for the 60, I had to order different ones because the 3000 doesn't seem to use the same kind, but I paid 28 cents in stead of 7 dollars each. I got like 56 of them for less than it would cost me to buy 2 from VST. SUre I only really need that once, but that once was really important!! As it will be for those in the future. I've noticed that MPC 3000 doesn't come by here as often as he used to, as well as others, and then I feel like I should come here less, I don't know as much as him, but I do know a thing or two, even about many machines I don't own.
I have learned a lot from newbies, asking simple good questions can get you to re think things and come up with great ideas. I want that, so I do want newbies here, but I want them thinking and coming up with stuff for themselves and us as well. This forum can be obvious and dangerous crutch in that respect, and no one appreciates the is midi audio question asked a thousand times, and it detracts from many things here.
Besides, they will probably learn more by reading the topics in the forums other than the newbie forum (if not reading the manual, or a magazine, or anything) than posting their question in as many forums as they can then only checking back for the answer to their question. THat only takes and contributes very little, so it belongs in the newbie forum. Nothing wrong with that, but that will also get the newbies thinking on question that are ridiculously redundant to those furthering another adgenda on some next shit, which I really like reading here, and I'm sure the newbies who don't take the quiz would benefit from reading it too, but if they want to post on that topic, they can take the damn quiz, or take it to the newbie forum.
I'm not looking to fail anyone, the taking of the quiz should be educational in itself and arm them to get the quiz right the next time. There is nothing stopping them from looking up the answers online while they take it, but that in itself is what they should do in the beginning, and that is the point I have behind the quiz.
