This does nothing to increase the capacity of older members to tolerate newbies—and that’s important, too. You’d be giving all the older members … how many times as many messages? I’m new, and I can’t keep up with my messages. I can’t imagine what it would do if I was an old member, and all of these new people were responding to me. If I were an old member in that situation, I would try to ignore the new users, and also, I would become increasingly annoyed with them demanding so much of my attention. That would lower the value of using the forum, and it may cause old members to quit.
It would also frustrate old members when new members weren’t aware of each other’s comments. That would be confusing.
This does nothing to increase the capacity of older members to tolerate newbies—and that’s important, too. You’d be giving all the older members … how many times as many messages? I’m new, and I can’t keep up with my messages. I can’t imagine what it would do if I was an old member, and all of these new people were responding to me. If I were an old member in that situation, I would try to ignore the new users, and also, I would become increasingly annoyed with them demanding so much of my attention. That would lower the value of using the forum, and it may cause old members to quit.
It would also frustrate old members when new members weren’t aware of each other’s comments. That would be confusing.
Do you see a way to resolve these issues?