Why you supporting this Forum?

Suthish Nair

Quote: "Why you supporting this Forum?"Ah, like all newcomers i need to get faster and simpler technology related solutions. So i joined a forum.I joined the biggest asp.net forum four years back, that was my first forum. I invested lots of my time supporting it
and about to reach All-Star level member. It was a great experince answering posts and getting marked as Answer etc..
But now i get bored of this forum, because of bad quality. Only few members provides very good quality solutions and support.
Others just copy pasting the replies here and there. Still sometimes, once in a moon i visit asp.net forums :).After that, tried some other forums like msdn, codeproject, stackoverflow.. etc.. all were good forums.
But at last i reached here and am enjoying this website. Because this helping me also to start from the scratch like re-learning
the basics again, answering the replys, freeling posting articles and blogs (this the best part..) and also getting some prizes :).Also personally I like some members here and their replies, i openly appreciate them. Another thing is about the freshness and
look n feel of this website.The great thing, i got a mail from asp.net forum admin member last week about supporting C# Corner
and also they missing my support at asp.net forum and wishes me good luck with C# Corner.
I think that was the first time getting an appreciation from them :).So i feel good now by joining this website.

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Suthish Nair15y ago
Yep Amit, everyone here a fan of Mahesh, Praveen etc :)

Sam, you still a top guru of CodeGuru....
Sam Hobbs15y ago
Many years ago, I was active in the CodeGuru.com forums; mainly C++. There was very little moderation then. During that time, I began putting some of my answers into a web site (that eventually became simplesamples.info). At some point, I got frustrated and became inactive in that site. At some point, I was active in some Microsoft mailing lists; mainly MFC (which is a C++ thing). Some of the MVPs were especially rude and it surprised me that Microsoft allowed such rude behavior in their mailing lsits. There was one MVP that Microsoft clearly warned about comments made to me. So after that, the CodeGuru.com forums got moderation and I noticed that I was close to getting ten thousand posts. Unlike many members, nearly all my posts were attempts to help others, not requests for assistance. I was the first CodeGuru.com member to get 10,000 posts. I got very little for my help. I did get a book and I got a shirt, but the shirt is long-sleeved and I seldom wear long-sleeve shirts here in southern California. A couple of the CodeGuru.com moderators had bad relationship skills. One of them clearly stated that he likes to make trouble. The other one was not capable of admitting he made a mistake. The CodeGuru.com forums became over-moderated and the moderation was innapropriate. I wish I had a way to contact the management that owned CodeGuru.com. I tried to explain the problems to the top moderator but that did not help.

Then I became active in the MSDN forums. I appreciate that the Microsoft representatives and other moderators are so active in them. They are quite active in reviewing threads and giving credit for good answers and even credit for useful answers. I appreciate the MSDN forums for being monitored enough to keep out the clearly rude and unproductive comments.

I appreciate that we get as much support and appreciation here in the C# Corner forums and such. I appreciate that I can express the value of teaching how to program instead of just giving samples of programs and that such concepts are appreciated. I am certainly benefiting from being appreciated and I appreciate that. It is exciting to be involved with an organization that is so serious about opening as much opportunity as this organization does for us.
Amit Choudhary15y ago
I really like this forum because: You can only get smart by playing a smarter opponent.!!

others reasons:
1. You can reach to the admins for any suggestions, complaints etc.
2. Everything is at one place clear and easily accessible or i can say very good integration of services provided here.
3. A satisfaction of solving others problem and specially those you have already faced in your work.
4. Mutual sharing of knowledge.. forum helps me i help forum users.. ;)
5. The very last and one of the great reason.. being a FAN of Mahesh 8)
Mahesh Chand15y ago
Fact of life: You're not appreciated until you are gone!

This is a good feedback Suthish.
User comments and challenge of learning something new are two major driving forces behind my writing and forums answers.