Re: I guesss it's just me

[Tom Scott] "I don't blame the "noobs", I blame the current layout of the After Effects forums (or, more precisely, the links configuration)."

Tom,

Do you know anything about human nature or do you just jump to conclusions based on your lack of evidence?

The truth is, we have tried to curtail this by having both entire basics sites (creativecalf.net -- that died because no one wanted to use it) and by having basics forums that leaders and admins moved basics posts to, to forcibly get the newb questions there. But human nature being as it is, these people regularly get incensed and take great exception to having their posts moved there. Why? Because they want the "real experts" answering their newb questions.

After all, they are more important than all the other newbs and do not want to have anyone but the advanced leaders answering them. If we were to have an Advanced forum, THAT is the forum they would post in...

We are working on breaking out the forums by TASK rather than level. Rendering in one forum; effects techniques in another; dealing with 3D layers and lighting in yet another, etc., etc. It will likely fail but it may be worth a try. We are kicking around the idea.

In the end, people like it all in one place rather than breaking it out because they don't have to go through forum after forum, as it is at adobeforums.com, etc.

Over the years, we have learned there is no perfect solution. We have tried many and it almost always comes back to what we have. It's far from perfect, but with human nature being what it is, to get it perfect would require every post being moderated and placed by admins that worked on it full time.

So, the bottomline is this: most of us look at the posts that interest us and avoid the ones that don't.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry