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Sorry I made the suggestion
You needn't be, my dear. We need new ideas all the time. Some fly, some don't. If they don't, that doesn't necessarily mean they were bad ideas--just not right for this time or place.
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I definitely vote against two separate pools.
So do I. What I was imagining, picking up on ewein's idea, was a single thread that would provide a starting point for new contributors, and that contribution there would not in any way militate against a newcomer posting wherever else they felt comfortable doing so.
The essential feature that I saw in this was to provide an obvious focus for newcomers to build early experience without too much perceived pressure from long-established contributors. This still seems to me a worthwhile additional feature, since it would not detract from the existing pattern but merely augment it.
edit: hah! ewein, in the meantime you've said it more succinctly than I did anyway =)
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And I, too, Ewein, can see how a place for newcomers could be helpful as long as everybody knew that, if they wanted to post anywhere, their posts would be welcome. The more the merrier--that kind of spirit. But, still, it would be good to have some kind of place where newcomers could express questions about how the board is run, try to fathom the terminology and inside language, and so on. When I first came on board, I had my hand slapped (gently) many a time--still do in fact! Ha!
Best regards,
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...about this language that we profess to love.
If a professional professes something, what does an amateur do to the same something? [/quote]
I remember getting terribly confused when I first started reading Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan's use of the word professor to mean not a teacher but one who professes (i.e., gives only lip service) so that his scorn was directed at hypocrites rather than academia.
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