Linux Newbie forum seems cluttered with "Oldies"

A couple of 'just my 2 cents' thoughts:

1. Post Count != Experience/Knowledge

2. People who may be highly experienced in topic "A" may be totally unfamiliar with topic "B", and thus they may consider Newbie to be the appropriate forum for their question about B.

As has been mentioned previously, deciding which is the "best" forum for a given question is always somewhat subjective, and not everyone will always agree. However, IMHO a good question that yields informative, clear responses will always have lasting value regardless of which forum it might happen to live in. Personally, unless the topic seems severely at odds with the forum's stated purpose, no moderator actions typically are needed. It's only in those cases where a clear disconnect exists that a thread would need to be moved (eg, a purely Windows question in one of the Linux technical forums)

Originally Posted by J.W. 1. Post Count != Experience/Knowledge

Definitely applies in my case.

I agree and i think the only solution is a short burst of mods moving stuff out of newbie and explaining why,

when i was a newbie i found it rather disconcerting when i was trying to work out why the ./configure script for something i was trying to install kept giving me errors about libraries not being installed when i thought they were (answer to that one was i needed the -dev of each lib too!)

when most of the first page of newbie was full of posts about obscure bits of makefile syntax, and mutch worse.
there was definatly a feeling that i was waisting peoples time posting something that was probably something obvious and from everything i had heard about the general OSS community was likley to get somthing like "RTFM" as a stock reply or worse "FOAD n00b"

had it been full of the normal newb stuff like "how do i get my speakers to work?" etc i would certainly have felt more comfatable..

as it is now i very rarely start threads in newbie unless i think its somthing blindingly obvious that i have missed

the dirstro forums, or software or hardware seem more appopiate

If you ever see a thread that you think is way out of place in Newbie, please use the "Report" button to bring it to the attention of an appropriate mod.

--jeremy