New people good. New people that align with Our mission is the target. You can lead a horse to water but not make it drink. I don’t want a million noobs asking a million dumb questions then not taking our advice and posting ridiculous stuff. If they wanna learn, and see our mission as cool and something they wanna Be a part of it then that’s great.
There needs to be a balance of new excited people, and older experienced people.
If the focus is solely or too largely on new members old experienced members will lose interest and grow tired of answering the same questions everyday.
This is one of the em biggest problems IMO with the larger forums. Nobody wants to read, just ask their questions.
Mike, the more I read this post the more I want to say something. So am gonna say it and hopefully it will not be taken the wrong way. I have ton of respect for you and everyone in the club.
I am in the hobby for 12 years, living in bay area for 13 years...yet I only heared of bar last year from rob..
as you can see, am engaged in the hobby, but I still consider myself a "noob" and have asked stupid questions and debated where am proven wrong or proven right or even agreed to disagree. All added value to me as a reefer and influenced how I want to forge my path..
I wish I have found BAR 10 years ago when I was making mistakes left and right, but if our mission statment is that we do not want noobs who ask alot of question, I think the club have a fundamental problem.
Because I believe "quality" "the right answer" and "the right way" are very subjective especially in this hobby.
The hobby is evolving and things are changing, some of these changes are accepted by all, some are accepted by part of the reefing community, so now, how do we judge this queation or answer is good or bad? Furthermore, if an experienced reefer felt the question is not worth the time, simply they should not bother, someone else will address and life will go on...
I come to BAR to hear other points and openions and diversity in that is key to drive engagment and discussions do not you think?
Reading older thread back in 2018 the same comments were made that the club need new blood, the club need helpers and volunteers. Fast forward 2 years in this thread, I see similar theme, that means engagment is still low. I also see many of the users who used to be active here no longer engaged...
We cannot expect the bay area reefing community is small. Yet I think engagment in BAR is lower than what I would expect it.....heck this area gave birth to Neptune systems and apex, Neptune aquatics and aquatic collections...these companies and stores changed the hobby forever...you drive engagment of any product BAR included, by bringing new users to the products noobs and experienced..
Sorry for the long post all what am saying is:
- I think new reefers with their silly or complex questions (to a point ofcourse) is good for the club
- local store are very important to the club since the club is intimate regional club
- I wish that the actual mission of the club is not "this club is execlusive to experienced users only" if it is, I do not think I qualify myself for its membership..
Cheers all.
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