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Is it my imagination or is lately is there an abnormally larger amount of the very simple questions, that can lead to burnout in answering if folks are energized and careful? I am not knocking the questions, everybody has to start somewhere and I would have quit long ago if they were that bad, I am just curious about the sudden influx. If it is lots of new eager faces that is good news, but I have rarely seen such a concentration of old scrap steel and alternative quenching questions. Trends have always fascinated me and are always interesting to find the possible roots of.
I started a little while back revamping some of my pages at my website to include frequently asked questions that I encounter on many forums, the rekindled interest in many of the basics tells me that it is a good idea to continue pursuing that. Once again I am all for new guys asking the starting questions, it means there are more folks getting started in this incredible craft we have, I just hope that there are less and less folks still peddling the same old silliness to those new guys. To me the ideal situation is to have todays newbies with interesting questions be the guys who answer the next waves basic questions, with solid information with increasingly more complex problems solved by increasingly more seasoned generations of experience. Unfortunately as long as there are sources out there claiming that all saw blades are L6 and that lards can make great quenchants years of information sharing can be reset to square one in a heartbeat. So in many ways I am encouraged by the basic questions and on other ways I can sometimes feel it is an endeavor as hopeless as fighting a tsunami with a Dixie cup.
For better or for worse, we seem to have a new group of questions to answer, I feel we need to work out how to tackle them in an encouraging manner. I feel this because of the impatient reaction I initially feel and then get control of when logic tells me the this questioner is not the same guy who just asked that last week and I can only look like a jerk to him by impatiently treating him like he is.
I started a little while back revamping some of my pages at my website to include frequently asked questions that I encounter on many forums, the rekindled interest in many of the basics tells me that it is a good idea to continue pursuing that. Once again I am all for new guys asking the starting questions, it means there are more folks getting started in this incredible craft we have, I just hope that there are less and less folks still peddling the same old silliness to those new guys. To me the ideal situation is to have todays newbies with interesting questions be the guys who answer the next waves basic questions, with solid information with increasingly more complex problems solved by increasingly more seasoned generations of experience. Unfortunately as long as there are sources out there claiming that all saw blades are L6 and that lards can make great quenchants years of information sharing can be reset to square one in a heartbeat. So in many ways I am encouraged by the basic questions and on other ways I can sometimes feel it is an endeavor as hopeless as fighting a tsunami with a Dixie cup.
For better or for worse, we seem to have a new group of questions to answer, I feel we need to work out how to tackle them in an encouraging manner. I feel this because of the impatient reaction I initially feel and then get control of when logic tells me the this questioner is not the same guy who just asked that last week and I can only look like a jerk to him by impatiently treating him like he is.
. But this is one the quickest upturns in the question cycle I have seen, and I think it could be a good sign for this forum that it is getting the attention of many newer faces (unless of course it is just a matter of a limited search function.)
