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ivan747:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 08, 2013, 02:06:50 am ---
--- Quote from: ivan747 on October 08, 2013, 02:04:54 am ---I feel most of them lack substance. Many are short, two-line opinions like this one.

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Perhaps, but is this just confirmation bias, or a real result?
How much does it differ from regular newbie posts?

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They do differ, I think. I grabbed a bunch of random users with anywhere form 30 to a thousand posts and looked at their 10 earliest posts. Most of them wrote just like they write now, they don't change. About 15% of the people I checked wrote shorter single paragraph posts. Others wrote longer things similar to this post.


B@W has proven some users come back to post whatever amount of posts they are missing in order to participate in the contest.

But I do get your point: it's normal for people new to electronics (not necessarily new to the forum) not to have long detailed posts or solid opinions on something like the Intel-based Arduino or whatever.

pstrag:
I'd like to say something from my position. Yes, I am trying to participate in EEVBlog contest. That is the main reason why I started to writing, but I was "using" this forum before just as a passive reader. Since I am not native English speaking person, I am using much more mature forum than this one, which is written in my language. BTW it is the largest forum in whole country ( elektroda.pl/rtvforum ). So it isn't like that I started to have some questions right now. I am writhing short posts, because I have to double check almost every sentence while writing and they are still with some errors. (Try to write some elaborate posts in your second / third language).
One of aims of this contest is to bring new users here and it is working. Sure, there are many weak posts and answers, just to collect 5 posts, but this is a rule of contest, so you shouldn't be surprised. After few days everything will be back to normal, but users like me will be encouraged to participate.
PS. Yes, it was my fifth post, and now I will be writing only, when I will have something to say :)

Neilm:

--- Quote from: kizzap on October 08, 2013, 02:14:02 am ---
They differ by date ;)


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They also differ in the fact some of the "newbie" posts I have seen are starting 5 new threads with pretty meaningless questions or statements.

tehmeme:

--- Quote from: pstrag on October 08, 2013, 08:33:21 am ---..

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Welcome to the forum.

BravoV:
2nd day ...

I think this is enough for now, next update will be 3 days after Dave closed the contest or/and made the announcement to see how it settles down.

Range 1st Sept - 8th Oct.

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