What Is AnswerBank?

[AB Editor]

Dear All,

We at AB Towers have recently been wondering how we can make the site better for you all. We thought one of the best ways to start this would be to open a debate about what you believe The AnswerBank is. Is it a Is it a place to get answers? A Place to Ask Questions? local village pub? A support group? A place to check you did "the right thing,"? or maybe somewhere to put the world to rights?

What do you consider the main purpose of The Answerbank?

How do you use The Answerbank?

Any theories are welcome! Throw your ideas into The AnswerBank Blender (Is it a blender or a pestel and mortar?) and we'll see what the answer is!

All the best,

Spare Ed

[netibiza]

I would like to thank Vinny for my birthday greetings x

And thank you Ed and everyone else also for any greetings you wish to send!!

[B00]

Neti, it's your birthday? Happy birthday me love!! xxx

(And in case i missed it, oopsie, but i still love you!)

[B00]

How's it a mess Shawnee? What don't you like about it?

(PS, no good saying it's a mess without saying what's wrong ;-) )

[netibiza]

Thanks BOO, blooming Ed is ignoring me! Do I care????

[bigmamma]

Arghhh , have I missed netis birthday :-(
Happy birthday neti , hope you had a good day xxxxxx

[Jan1957]

I think AB has been much better recently on the whole. Like many others I rely on it to a certain extent for my social life as I'm disabled and mainly house-bound.

[smudge]

Late in as usual.....

Too tired to think of any requestes Ed, but just wanted to wish our Dear Neti a very happy birthday & many happy returns. Bless you Neti. ^8^ -xx-

[netibiza]

thanks smudge x ^8^

[AB Editor]

Happy Birthday Neti! Sorry I am late!

Spare Ed

[Aquagility]

This has been requested so many times by so many people. Could you not, please, combine Q&P with Crosswords? This, more than anything, would eventually gain you greater participation, which must in the end be what pays the piper.

[netibiza]

Hmmmm - well ok then Spare Ed, thanks for bothering, was feeling pretty miffed. x :-)

[blackeyed]

for me its both a place to get answers and a place to ask questions !!

[AB Editor]

Aquagility - There are two camps on this issue at the moment - we will come up with a solution one of these days, but it is not top of the list. We've got bugs to hunt first.

All the best,

Spare Ed

[TWR]

Hi all, my thoughts about this site, 100/100% It gives you all you want, advice, humor, Knowledge, answers, Problem with problem advice, and It's free of charge, if the product is good, don't alter it, I was on a previous site that started good "" Ask Your Neighbour"" there was banter, all as this site gives, but then they started the adverts & forgetting who made the site successful, what happened? well I am here for one I think you will understand that last statement. Good Luck with AB keep up the good work.

[cazzz1975]

its a bit of everything, I like the format, I do think the discussion censor is a little strong, debate should be encouraged because it attracts people to post more, not abuse, debate.

there is a difference yet a lot of lively posts get pulled!

by restricting the freedom to exchange views will put a lot of people off posting anything that may be deemed "opinionated" creating a less active board

[AB Editor]

Thanks TWR - the two worst enemies of a brand or product like this are new friends (because they want to change it to make their mark) and old friends (because they're bored of it already!) - we'll try not to be either!

Cazz - we only censor the rude, abusive and nasty. I am sorry if you believe otherwise. Debate should not get nasty so we attempt to remove any posts which do go that way. We don't mind strong opinions we just don't like it when users begin attacking one another.

Please continue contributing if you have any further thoughts about the AnswerBank in general, we're listening!

All the best,

Spare Ed

[tamborine]

When is my presentation? I want my robes & mortar flashed with multi-neon colors.

http://www.theanswerb...-Blog/article/ab-uni/

[AB Editor]

Fair Point Tamborine. I think we'd have to put some some tests or quizzes first though?

All the best,

Spare Ed

[Clanad]

Without beating the proverbial dead horse, and with only a modicum of hand-waiving, could you prod the Techies to once again consider WYSiWYG style bolding, italics and underlining? It's probably the one thing that can make a poster's post (is that redundant?) personalized and enhance the emotion involved.
Additionally , a self-reading text editor that would eliminate any post that includes any semblance of the phrase "Why don't you just Google it"... defeats the purpose of the site or so it seems to me.
One other thought... a red-flag when the maximum length of script per message is approached. I see a lot of posters that don't understand why part of their reply has been eliminated, thinking it lost.
Lastly, postdidactic isn't hyphenated, but you'r credited with trying with style... (said with all the felicitousness one can muster).