Tiered Experience Forums

[Esherido]

I've been getting frustrated recently trying to find threads that are actually worth answering (EG: Lorren's Regex thread here (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=324819)). Unfortunately these seem to be buried in a giant mound of useless threads created by noobs and spam bots. A solution to this problem that I wanted to propose was the creation of forums for more advanced users that would be tucked away somewhere where the noobs wouldn't see it. In this way serious questions that actually cover more advanced topics (Stuff more like "Output buffering performance" instead of "HELP PLZ! XML NOT DOES WORK!!!") could be made easily obvious to people who actually want to help other programmers instead of writing code for idiotic noobs. :top_hat:

[TheCanadian]

I won't say it's the worst idea I've ever heard, but it's pretty low down there.

[kirupa]

esh - Everyone was a noob at some point when they started out :P

One of the goals of this forum is to help everyone become better at what they are trying to do without segregating them based on skill. A large part of that involves transferring wisdom and knowledge from those who know to those who don't know.

Having a tiered forum structure would hurt that greatly.

:)

[icio]

You could utilize the thread labels and/or tags for this. Perhaps a moderated "Advanced" thread label. Moderated in the sense that people can request the label be removed from unworthy threads.

[kirupa]

Really great threads get moved to the "Best Of" forum already, so we do have a place where above-average useful threads ago. Having that be done more frequently in the forum the thread is itself would be too much overhead for all of the mods.