How come…
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Friday October 12th, 2007 @ 11:29 AM
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Why don’t we have the option of choosing who we address our questions to anymore? The recent changes in BME are really disappointing. It was nice to not have to seek out a professional in person every time you had to ask a question about something. This used to be a really helpful place to get information, but I can’t say I’ll be using it anymore.
Well, as said before, we are still waiting for all staff members to get their accounts ready, and we want to be sure they’re perfectly familiar with the new system. Once all staff members have their accounts, and personal information in the staff page (therefore you’ll be able to ask the -right- person the -right- question), there’s no reason why this feature wouldn’t be included, not to mention it’s very simple to implement.
As for your comments on how this ‘used to be a really helpful place’, I really don’t see how it’s changed, all the same information is still available. If anything it’s easier to read, indexed much easier by robots (hello google), and then we have comments, updates to technorati, pingbacks from other blogs.. Shall I go on? Also, given how QOD was not even down for a single day, I don’t know why you’re complaining about having to seek out a professional in person every time you had a question (phone? IAM?).
I hope you change your opinion of AskBME and join us again for some questions and comments.
Thank you.
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4 Responses to “How come…”
here’s a suggestion: if posting as “AskBME”, can you please sign your name, so we know who is talking?
personally i like the new modblog-esque look of the QOD. at the same time, i think it’s completely understandable that some feelings of insecurity have crept into the IAM community in light of recent drama.
katie on October 12th, 2007 at 1:05 pmit’s kind of difficult to “join [you] again for some questions and comments” when comments are moderated, and invisible to the rest of the community.
katie on October 13th, 2007 at 1:51 amThe comments are eventually accepted and then visible to everyone else. And while they are moderated, the questions and people’s follow up replies on the old QOD were always moderated as well.
coneja on October 14th, 2007 at 1:10 pmI kind of dont like this new style because if some usefull follow up is posted on the comments, I wont know about it unless I click on the entry… It’s harder to “scan” for what interests me
Julia on October 14th, 2007 at 4:04 pmLeave a Comment