Quote from: nomad bloodbath on January 22, 2013, 11:42 pmThe moderators are responding to the questions as they can vest answer newbie questions without fear of misinformation or alternative reason for spreading misinformation among the new members with deception in mind.I've made myself more than available to them and If I cant answer their questions....who can? :PX)nomadIf the powers that be truly feel that this is necessary, then so be it. If the majority of people can't be trusted, then I guess nobody should be. With that said, the last thing I'm going to say about it follows.It's incredibly irritating to see the recent posts page filled with newbie section posts that I can't answer even if I have life saving information (not that the fate of entire worlds hang on my every word or anything, just pointing it out).Also... whom does this protection serve? The users of Silk Road and the forums? Excellent, except I don't think that's being accomplished as efficiently as it might appear. There's a problem somewhere with this logic: so if I were brand new, my well being and the community as a whole would be cared for by restricting me to the newbie section. Fine then, no problems so far. But what's the motivation for this? Presumably the comfort and enjoyment of the majority (I kind of doubt Buddha appeared to DPR in a dream and said it would please him or something, so I assume it ultimately must come down to maximizing the general comfort and enjoyment of users).... but, um... aren't the ones who've been around and feel like this place is kind of their home, users too? So... that goddamn page full of newbie posts that I have to ignore because I can't do a damn thing with them -- the ones that totally look exactly the same as the other sections I can interact in -- all of those spam-like messages must not bother me at all, because otherwise it would be greatly impacting my user experience and diminishing my comfort and enjoyment. I mean it only disrupts the primary method of interacting in a faster-than-twice-a-day-basis on the forums here... yeah, no biggie. I doubt anybody who's got more than 50 posts and/or has been around for awhile gives it a second thought.Oh, except... it does bug me. A whole fucking lot sometimes, actually. I don't really care about not being "allowed" to post there, I don't feel belittled or anything like that. It's the simple fact that I have to be faced with questions and comments that I have no means of responding to and that blend in exactly like regular posts -- they're harder to overlook than spam. A lot harder. That's what irks me. So why's it seem like the ones getting the most consideration are the ones who just showed up yesterday? Now... if you (whoever's reading at this moment -- yes, that would be you right now) have forgotten my first two sentences in this post, you should go back and read them again, because I meant them.It just seems a little biased in favor of new users, is all I'm saying.