Newbie Creation Suggestions

[Johnny Reefer]

This post is in no way meant to be critical of CanReef. It is meant to provide observations and feedback with the intent of improving an already good thing.

When I first joined CanReef in May 2005, I was only 3 months into the saltwater aquarium hobby and felt quite intimidated, to be honest, about starting some of my new threads in the Reef Forum. Depending on the question(s) I had, Newbie Creation sometimes seemed a better fit to what I was asking. I did not want to waste more experienced reefer's time in the Reef Forum, with simple problems. I feel more comfortable, now, on the board, but still, from time to time, feel that a question I have is too simple for the Reef Forum. It was nice to have the option of the Newbie Creation Forum to start such a thread. One might say that the answer to a question posted in such a forum may be overlooked by someone with a good answer because the experienced reefers would generally ignore the forum. Possibly, but I figure not all experienced reefers would ignore such a forum and that some would actually look for such threads, intending to help. Also…I either had a hard time grasping the board’s intention of the Newbie Creation Forum, or…I didn’t want to grasp it. (Maybe both).


Having said that, a few suggestions, if I may…..
-Create a new forum for articles called….well….”Articles Forum”.
-Change the name of the Newbie Creation Forum to just “Newbie Forum”, (I never did understand the word Creation in that title, if I may be so bold as to admit that), and open it up again to the members for posting questions. (I can’t speak for other CanReefers but I think others might agree with me on this).
and finally….
-Create a FOWLR Forum. I had a thread in Newbie Creation that was moved to Tank Specs, but I don’t really think that it fits there. Being a thread about an FOWLR tank, a forum for those tanks would be nice, IMHO.

Might I also add, please, an observation that Newbie Creation, as it is now, is hardly ever used.

Thanx much for listening and cheers,