This is great! I'm excited that some of the ol' timers would like to help out the new folks and are taking ownership in making that happen. What springs to mind is to create a Beginner sub-forum to this main Suzuki sub-forum and we can post each of those questions that Jeremiah came up with as threads to seed the discussions.

Would those of you that are interested in helping the newbies support that by looking at the new sub-forum (if created) and answering questions to the best of your ability?

Maybe a wiki would be a better way to go?

-Eric

As a noob....I think a wiki page would be awesome.

And the sub forum for beginners sounds great as well.

I would definitely try to contribute to threads that fall under categories I actually am familiar with.  It won't be many....but....

This is great! I'm excited that some of the ol' timers would like to help out the new folks and are taking ownership in making that happen. What springs to mind is to create a Beginner sub-forum to this main Suzuki sub-forum and we can post each of those questions that Jeremiah came up with as threads to seed the discussions.

Would those of you that are interested in helping the newbies support that by looking at the new sub-forum (if created) and answering questions to the best of your ability?

Maybe a wiki would be a better way to go?

-Eric

i think a beginner sub forum would be great. I think something like that would answer a lot of my questions.

Is there a way to create a sticky thread called something like "FAQ" or "New to the forum? Read me before posting" at the top? Inside can be a welcome note, and an index of these "Dear Newbie" threads. Each "Dear Newbie" can be indexed, which is why I put the (1) up there. I think the advantage is this is a very high-traffic area, so it will be more likely the "sub threads" will be contributed to by both new and old members. I'm also familiar with how to add links, pics and edit in a normal thread. I suppose I could learn to use a wiki, but what's the advantage of a wiki over what we've already got?

Just separating the Trackick from sami would help too.

This is lookin like it will be a good thing for noobs like me   One suggestion, if you end up making a sticky or seperate "welcome noob" section I'd make the heading red or something so it's more visible.  Just a thought.

This is lookin like it will be a good thing for noobs like me   One suggestion, if you end up making a sticky or seperate "welcome noob" section I'd make the heading red or something so it's more visible.  Just a thought.

I like that idea. A bright red sticky for us noobs!!!!

Just separating the Trackick from sami would help too.

Probably not going to happen. Too hard to sort out the existing threads.

What if we didn't do anything with the threads already made but in a sticky FAQ section split it into newbie trackick, and Newbie Sami

I would keep them more together than spreading them out.  It seems like other forums get dead spots in them when they separate sami's and trackicks.

I'm all game for a FAQ section, it would be nice so slow the high amount of re asked questions.  I would definitely be willing to help out and spread as much of my Suzuki knowledge as i can.  There's also a lot of well informed people here so i think this whole idea would be a good thing!

Amilla


Edit.....realizzed i coulnt spel

I wanna start a new thread called "Newb questions that get under Jeremiah's skin"....ssshhh...I'm thinking....pphhhiit !     what was that?!      Dohh!

I think we will move forward with adding a sub-forum for this forum (Suzuki) for FAQs. I want to mull it over a bit to try and give it a structure that will make it successful for newbies and us before it's created. Thanks for all the input on the subject.

-Eric

Sounds like a good idea  ...but aside from that, I must ask why it bothers some of the members when new people post up questions that have obviously been asked before.  It's funny because they're always the first to jump in and give their piece of mind like they're watching for them(repete question Police). What will you do when the repete questions slow down?... widdle wood?

I happen to like the repete questions, it sparks up conversation and the new member gets a chance to warm up, meet some great people and talk about themselves and their rig.

Just my $.02

Sounds like a good idea  ...but aside from that, I must ask why it bothers some of the members when new people post up questions that have obviously been asked before.  It's funny because they're always the first to jump in and give their piece of mind like they're watching for them(repete question Police). What will you do when the repete questions slow down?... widdle wood?

I happen to like the repete questions, it sparks up conversation and the new member gets a chance to warm up, meet some great people and talk about themselves and their rig.

Just my $.02

I think one of the big reasons is it clutters up the forum.  Then when it comes down to searching you have to do lots of sifting to find what you need.

It doesn't bother me at all to see the same questions, it takes 0 energy to answer the question.  This is pirate where everyone will flame you to death if you ask a so called "newb" question.

Amilla

Sounds like a good idea  ...but aside from that, I must ask why it bothers some of the members when new people post up questions that have obviously been asked before.  It's funny because they're always the first to jump in and give their piece of mind like they're watching for them(repete question Police). What will you do when the repete questions slow down?... widdle wood?

I happen to like the repete questions, it sparks up conversation and the new member gets a chance to warm up, meet some great people and talk about themselves and their rig.

Just my $.02

As a newb myself, it would be nice to have one place to go to read some basics, that every zuki owner should know. Then from what I learned on the FAQ I can ask questions with a little more knowledge. For example mt dad and I had a jeep cherokee, that I worked on a little bit, not much and I thought I actually knew a far amount about lifts and things. Turns out I know very little but am learning. Things like SPOA that people throw around on here as common term, took me awhile to figure out what it was. So it would be nice to have one place to learn basics, then be able to post better questions, and understand answers better.