However I don't necessarily agree that newbie's wont get their question answered.
There are a lot of helpfully people out there, a lot of them are advanced in their programing but find the satisfaction of helping, or mentoring someone into advanced programming who is less advanced. I know that when i started I posted messages at phpbuilder in the newbie area. I found more often than not I would get a response from someone who cared, and would treat a newbie for what he or she is rather than a just a plain old idiot.
My point is; yes advanced users would be separated from beginners, but most of the questions asked in the beginners list would be answered by advanced programmers looking for a bit of 'fuzzy wazzies' :)
Two thumbs up for the idea.
Marc
Ryan A wrote:
This has come up many times before and I really don't think it will work. Splitting advanced users from beginners means that there will be nobody to answer the beginner questions which means they will get posted to the advanced list where the people with the answers are. It is a self-defeating separation. Having everyone in one big lump means that both camps and all the camps in between learn from each other.
The other question is who decides what is advanced? Chances are what you think is advanced may seem trivial to me, or vice-versa.
-Rasmus
True, When I started learning PHP one of the guys who answered most of the questions for me and a lot of people was Capt John Holmes, now that dude knows a ****load of php (I mean that as a complement). If there was an advanced list he would probably be in it and very unlikely that he would also be in the "newbie" list to help which would have made my learning curve that much harder. Some other guys who are really helpful and advanced are Jason, Chris, Chris, David to name a few..take all of them out and put them in the advanced list...and the newbies, not-so-newbies etc will follow just coz we have no choice when we run into problems. If only newbies and average knowledge dudes are in the "not advance list" it wont work coz the blind leading the blind does not work.
My $0.2
Cheers, -Ryan
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