What happened to all the pinned tutorials?

[Guest]

  On 1/5/2014 at 12:18 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Is independence a good thing? Are self-reliance, critical thinking and problem-solving worthwhile skills to try to foster?

Encouraging modelers to do their own research before asking questions that have already been answered here repeatedly and in depth also encourages self-reliance, critical thinking and independent thought.

There is. Go to Google in a separate browser window, type in site:modelcarsmag.com, a space, and the the specific subject you're looking for.

Then why didn't you do that when you asked this question in the Kit Review section? http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79139 When I Googled JoHan '69 AMX, I came up with 1,850,000 results in .33 seconds and quickly found the answer to your question.

[Guest]

  On 1/4/2014 at 3:24 AM, Harry P. said:

Maybe you should apply for the job of moderator.

That's not a bad idea! Then I could post my builds wherever I wanted. You know, like a 1/12 scale fire truck (I guess you forgot about the large scale section) or a double decker bus in the Pickups,Vans, SUV, Light Commercial section. I could move everyone else's topics/posts wherever I wanted on a whim. I could also let my friends post wherever they wanted. I'll have to send Gregg an email and see.

[fatkidd]

If you are going to do some cleaning up, there should be some consistency.
Say, for example, there are 7 pinned topics in "Auto Art" from 2010 that could be condensed into 1 pinned topic.

[Ace-Garageguy]

  On 1/5/2014 at 5:24 PM, plowboy said:

Then why didn't you do that when you asked this question in the Kit Review section? http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79139 When I Googled JoHan '69 AMX, I came up with 1,850,000 results in .33 seconds and quickly found the answer to your question.

Obviously because I'm a lazy hypocrite, Roger. That's your point, right? I wasn't aware the question had been answered repeatedly and exhaustively on THIS forum, as your question implies. Sooooo sorry.

Oh wait...asking a specific question about a specific part inside a specific kit box is a little different, in my tiny little mind anyway, than asking for the 2-thousandth time "how do I strip paint?". See the difference?

Edited January 5, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy

[Ace-Garageguy]

  On 1/5/2014 at 3:59 PM, comp1839 said:

you bet it is ace. so are asking questions BEFORE you waste a lot of time looking at a bunch irrelevant mumbo jumbo.

if you guys don't want to answer questions, for goodness sake, DON"T! your lack of answering won't change the world. there is no one here who's advice is SOOOO important or so good that not answering will mean a hill of beans to anyone. if any one thinks they have to have ace-garageguy's (or any one else's) advice. they can either request you answer personally or they can send you a PM. then,.........you can CHOOSE to answer or not. just do us all a favor. STOP complaining!!!!!

It's really fascinating to me to watch something like this go away from the topic, and turn personal.

The STUPID, LAZY thing is not ASKING QUESTIONS. The STUPID, LAZY thing is asking questions that have BEEN ANSWERED REPEATEDLY OVER AND OVER AND OVER. The pinned tutorials offered a wealth of information without having to "waste a lot of time looking at a bunch irrelevant mumbo jumbo".

I LIKED and USED the pinned tutorials, and would often read through them, a few posts at a time, when I had a spare moment. I learned a lot.

Edited January 5, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy

[comp1839]

what's fascinating to me ACE. no one is making this personal and it's not going away from the specific topic. i'm simply replying to the comments about it being frustrating and tired of answering the same questions over and over.

i would agree it's lazy and stupid to ask the same questions over and over.......if it were the same person asking. unfortunately it's not. see the difference?

by the way your second statement makes no sense at all.

i've read the pinned tutorials too. i'm certainly not saying that removing them was the smartest thing i've seen. i'm simply saying IF YOU DON"T LIKE PEOPLE ASKING QUESTIONS OVER AND OVER............DON"T ANSWER THEM!!!!!!!

[Harry P.]

I'm not the one who "unpinned" the pinned topics... that was someone else's decision, so I won't comment on that specific thing. BUT... when the pinned topics were there, the same questions kept getting asked over and over again anyway, which proves to me that pinning topics, for the most part, is useless. Most (not all) people simply ask their question without trying to first find the answer themselves. I guess it's human nature, especially on a forum, to just ask away.

I don't have a problem with the same questions being asked over and over. Look at the plus side... it brings up a topic every so often that a lot of beginners might need to know about. And besides, if anyone doesn't like answering the same questions over and over again, you don't have to! Let someone else take a crack at answering. There's no need to feel obligated to answer repetitive questions over and over again... we have plenty of members here who will chime in and answer.

[comp1839]

now, let's see if it sinks in.

[Ace-Garageguy]

  On 1/5/2014 at 8:29 PM, comp1839 said:

...by the way your second statement makes no sense at all...

Must have been a tricky one. If you mean my statement "The pinned tutorials offered a wealth of information without having to "waste a lot of time looking at a bunch irrelevant mumbo jumbo", which quoted part of your response in post 25: "...so are asking questions BEFORE you waste a lot of time looking at a bunch irrelevant mumbo jumbo", i was assuming by the phrase "looking at a bunch irrelevant mumbo jumbo" you were referring the the results of a site:modelcarsmag.com (subject) search, which admittedly doesn't ALWAYS return 100% useful and relevant results.

The "pinned tutorials" on the other hand, usually DID contain relevant and useful information. Subtle difference.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Edited January 5, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy