Regulars are becoming Irregular

[lyle fairfield]

My observation is that over the past few months many of our regulars
seems to be drifting away, making fewer contributions or none at all.

Why?

I can speculate:

1. The quality of questions here in CDMA has been low;
2. The regulars are busy with paying work;
3. Contributing to the MS groups may result in recognition in the form
of MVP status;
4. Long held ideas and reputations are sometimes challenged here.

Is CDMA withering?

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

Re: Regulars are becoming Irregular

lyle fairfield <lyle.fairfield @gmail.comwrote :

>3. Contributing to the MS groups may result in recognition in the form
>of MVP status;

That won't make a difference. MS recognizes contributes due to mailing lists, online
forums such as utteraccess.com and other newsgroups. Even user group leaders are
now MVPs.

Tony
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[Bob Alston]

Re: Regulars are becoming Irregular

Tony Toews [MVP] wrote:

lyle fairfield <lyle.fairfield @gmail.comwrote :
>

>3. Contributing to the MS groups may result in recognition in the form
>of MVP status;

>
That won't make a difference. MS recognizes contributes due to mailing lists, online
forums such as utteraccess.com and other newsgroups. Even user group leaders are
now MVPs.
>
Tony

I have always been irregular.

Bob

[Larry Linson]

Re: Regulars are becoming Irregular

"lyle fairfield" <lyle.fairfield @gmail.comwrote

My observation is that over the past few months many of our regulars
seems to be drifting away, making fewer contributions or none at all.

If our regulars are becoming irregular, do you think we should be taking up
a collection to buy them some Metamucil or psillium fibers?

Actually, I do not know for certain. DPM and others, at one time, made the
place so unpleasant that many of us who had not done so before began to
answer questions elsewhere. Arvin Meyer, back at that time, got out of the
habit of visiting here, and only occasionally drops in.

More recently, PCDatasheet was disruptive, but not enough to irritate anyone
into leaving, I suspect, and DPM seems to have drifted away.

A few other "old timers" are out of the Access business, at least for now,
but they'll likely show up again if they begin to work more with "our
favorite database".

Maybe some just got "burned out" -- it happens to me, from time to time.
Newsgroups are the last thing to suffer, in my case, but I'm "on hiatus"
with presentations for my user group from July until November.

In regards to Tony's comment, not long ago, someone here (not an MVP)
suggested that if one wants to be an MVP, they ought to move to Utter
Access. And, it is true that in the last couple of years, a lot of new
Access MVPs have come via Utter Access -- and, from personal knowledge, they
are very well qualified. Frankly, I think that's because someone at
Microsoft took a look at Utter Access, and thought, "Wow, these folks are
good! I think I'll recommend to the MVP program that they take a look."

I have two personal acquaintances who are MVPs (one in Access, one in
ASP.NET) who are very much involved in the "user community" (both lead at
least one user group) but who rarely, if ever, post to any newsgroups.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP

[The Frog]

Re: Regulars are becoming Irregular

Hi Guys,

This may seem a little trite, but perhaps the feeling of a lack of
contribution by others is because the volume of information that is
already put forward is so comprehensive that most everything someone
can think of is already done and solved. Perhaps the saturation limit
is being reached?

The Frog