d123
Advanced Member level 5
Hi,
I've been keeping this to myself for a while but feel the need to mention it and make a suggestion.
According to edaboard, I am an 'advanced member level 5' - so is e.g. c_mitra. He is a knowledgeable engineer, I am a not very knowledgeable hobbyist with big gaps in my learning who makes beginner mistakes in my circuits.
I often feel like a bit of a guilty fraud with that 'advanced member level 5' definition. A new member may think I know a lot, and a newbie engineer feel frustrated being defined as 'newbie'. If I give my 'advanced' advice to a hardened industrial power engineer who I think is a 'newbie', well, it's almost insulting for some people, perhaps.
A new member can deliberately or inadvertently game the system with constant posts that are persistently non-sensical rubbish, yet quickly become an 'advanced member (e.g. that person here who always researches nothing and draws wiggly incomprehensible backwards, upside-down spaghetti schematics).
Why not change the points-based definition for a drop-down menu with a decent range of choices on joining where each new member can define themself as, e.g.:
Student
Beginner
Tinkerer
Hobbyist
Engineer/power engineer/RF engineer/etc.
Senior engineer
Test and measurement specialist
Lazybones who wants other people to do all the work and research for them
etc.
?
A points system for contributing threads and replies of worth/value is good. However, maybe that would be fairer and we could all understand each member's threads and replies in a more defined context.
Just an idea.
I've been keeping this to myself for a while but feel the need to mention it and make a suggestion.
According to edaboard, I am an 'advanced member level 5' - so is e.g. c_mitra. He is a knowledgeable engineer, I am a not very knowledgeable hobbyist with big gaps in my learning who makes beginner mistakes in my circuits.
I often feel like a bit of a guilty fraud with that 'advanced member level 5' definition. A new member may think I know a lot, and a newbie engineer feel frustrated being defined as 'newbie'. If I give my 'advanced' advice to a hardened industrial power engineer who I think is a 'newbie', well, it's almost insulting for some people, perhaps.
A new member can deliberately or inadvertently game the system with constant posts that are persistently non-sensical rubbish, yet quickly become an 'advanced member (e.g. that person here who always researches nothing and draws wiggly incomprehensible backwards, upside-down spaghetti schematics).
Why not change the points-based definition for a drop-down menu with a decent range of choices on joining where each new member can define themself as, e.g.:
Student
Beginner
Tinkerer
Hobbyist
Engineer/power engineer/RF engineer/etc.
Senior engineer
Test and measurement specialist
Lazybones who wants other people to do all the work and research for them
etc.
?
A points system for contributing threads and replies of worth/value is good. However, maybe that would be fairer and we could all understand each member's threads and replies in a more defined context.
Just an idea.