Re: I guesss it's just me

[Stuart Elith] "I agree with this suggestion, that the naming of the default AE forum is making it seem like the obvious choice for all kinds of questions that may be better suited to the Basics forum."

While this may make sense, it would ignore the fact that 80% of the COW's user base work with these tools for a living. There are less than 11% that are both students and educators. The balance are hobbyists.

But as I said in my other post in this thread, human nature is such that the noobs for the most part do not think that the leaders in the Basics forum are real pros -- we know, we have written many and asked why they won't post there.

The leaders in the Basics forum ARE real pros and many know an INCREDIBLE amount about After Effects. They are the people that tend to be "pre-wired" to be able to handle newbie questions and have a disposition that allows them to walk newer users through repetitive explanations until they get it.

But unfortunately, were we to set that basics forum as the starting place, the preponderance of newbies would search out the Advanced forum -- were we to add one -- and THAT is where they would post.

It's that human nature thingie, again.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

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