mikeytag wrote:

Ray,
I think the main problem was that HomeRepairLive was making it too easy for
novices to post and not educating them as to proper newsgroup etiquette and
such. This morning I checked http://www.homerepairlive.com/?post=new and it
looks like they are starting to educate users better. Judging by this
better post:
http://www.homerepairlive.com/thread...he+shower.html
it looks like they might be on a better track.
The site makes it so easy to post that many newbies to newsgroups and home
repair just thought, "Oh, I ask any question and someone answers it." This
is not how usenet works and it takes helpful replies as well as questions
to make the system beneficial to everyone. It looks like they are on the
right track now, it will be interesting to see what posts the site brings
today. Yesterday's posts were mostly absurd like you say. My favorite
being:

shingles
how do I install them?

And a great reply by Edwin
NAILS

Mike

It's AOhelL / WebTV syndrome, the more you dumb down the user interface,
the more dumb users you get.

Pete C.