I agree with Chris about the search engine. I had lurked for awhile when I wanted to know about sources for quality fish oil. I searched instead of asking because I had seen so many similar requests go up in flames. I am not bothered by being flamed, but I did want an answer, so I searched. I do research and use search engines all day long, but it took me hours to compile some useful information. It was painful. So I try to help answer fish oil questions now! If I had posted, and someone had replied with a few leads to direct my search, that would have been extremely helpful and appreciated.
Shiggy, your post expressing appreciation at the help you’ve gotten from Tampa-Terry – as well as Tampa-Terry’s help – was heart-warming. What better scenario could I expect on any forum. Despite TT’s protests, I think she deserves the first “Soldier” award too. She couldn’t offer more helpful advice if it were her full-time paid job to do so.
Thunder and CS,
Good points. I personally enjoy mentoring people, but have been burned many times by people who are only looking for short cuts and/or affirmation that what they are currently doing is adequate.
This has turned into one of the better threads in quite some time.
Most of the time with great threads we start to refer to them as “Must Reads for Newbie’s”, I would say that this is a “Must Read for the Regular/Veteran posters.”
For a while there we were all getting a little short with the newbies, but as of late the forumn has taken a turn in a much better direction. Lets keep it going.
As far as whom I would have to suggest for the Soldier Award. This is tough, just to damn many quality ppl passing on knowledge from week to week. A short list that will leave way to many out, TT, Thunder, Patricia, Zeb, Dan McVicker, Big Martin, Goldberg,… The list just rolls on.
Good luck on choosing this award guys. It’ll be a tough one, and as CS stated will vary week to week as topics and posters time vary.
I see what you’re saying Rick and I don’t expect you to do the work for me, but like Chris said just by telling us a lead to a good article which alot of you guys are already doing by posting the page up for us to go read. Now if we don’t want to read it’s on us, some people want everything on a gold plate.