Newbies and How we deal with them

[maniclion]

Well for those of you who think we should cater to their every need you can cut and paste from the stickies thread to those peoples threads...we can even put a special title under your Names like the Moderators have...you can be the Coddleators...

 

[PreMier]

 

[Duncans Donuts]

I'm not a trainer, but then again i won't really be writing out programs for people and walk them through the whole process because i just don't have the time now a days.

But i have to agree with CP on this one. There is a difference between someone saying..."Here's a program i wrote based on the stickies" and "I want a six pack to bang chicks, gimme gimme gimme."

The former, even if the program is horrendous, will get all the help in the world with program design, progression etc. The latter will get some P Funk bashing ie "you're an idiot, i hope you trip over a rock"

The stickies were made by the pro's on this site, not weekend warriors who have been training for x amount of years. The people who wrote them do this for a living, and charge people money to do the very same thing that you (i should say 'we' because the mods are light years ahead of me in training knowledge by now) all get for free. Its not only annoying when people disregard the stickies, its an insult to everything these guys have put into this forum.

As far as a member base, I've been on this forum for 5 years or so and it has not suffered one bit in terms of members. We have peaks and troughs in terms of productive members at times but all in all this place is the only forum i frequent regularly.

Post of the year.

 

[tallcall]

And with that statement, Yanick has probably just made about a dozen or so new permanent friends here! The new people could learn something from this.

 

[tallcall]

This thread should be a sticky!

 

[XFatMan]

I can kind of agree with that, and I try to point people to the stickies tactfully. However, it does get frustrating on occasion when someone basically wants you to write a program for them. This is especially true if you are a trainer. This is something pay you money to do, and when someone comes along and expects it to be done for them for free without putting in any effort, it gets a little bit annoying. If someone makes an attempt after reading the stickies and they still don't get it, then I am happy to go from there.

And c'mon, when I see people who are trainers expecting you to do all the work, that is simply too much, I do lose my cool intentionally. And on top of that, there are people who run forums on their own. They should know more than anybody else that you must read the stickies first, then search (on the forum or google), and only then ask, especially if it's a newbie question.

I have used this forum for much longer than I've been posting. I only signed up because I thought that now the time has come to return some of the help I have received here.

 

[min0 lee]

June 1, 2006: Body Weight: 114.9 Kg / 264.1 lbs Body Fat Percentage: 42%
August 26, 2007: Body Weight: 77.2 Kg / 177.5 lbs Body Fat Percentage: 22%

Just seeing that is an inspiration.
Good job Xman