tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31216575.post6508893187945674148..comments2024-01-27T07:32:53.464+01:00Comments on On The Peoplesoft Road: OTN forums : 28 days later, what else ?Nicolas Gasparottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06634519580752248909noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31216575.post-60510150456459837352008-10-27T06:17:00.000+01:002008-10-27T06:17:00.000+01:00Hi Nicolas,I just found your blog today when looke...Hi Nicolas,<BR/>I just found your blog today when looked at Oraclecommunity's profile. Good to see it and it will be added in my blog rolls now.<BR/>About the forums, well I just replied over a thread where a guy Hub mentioned about the disliking of points. For me, your words over a thread( can't remember which one) were the best and sort of eye-openers," when we didn't bother about the thanks in the past, why bother about points now". It was a spot on for atleast me. <BR/>Points or no points, for me all of you guys who are old and senior over Forums are a great source of knowledge and inspiration. I am sure, as much possible, you guys would help all the novice people like to me to get corrected/improved. Thanks to all of your help,support and guidance and hope to get it in future as well.<BR/>Warm regards<BR/>Aman....Aman....https://www.blogger.com/profile/03468684193635458317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31216575.post-63063324952081663392008-09-19T20:29:00.000+02:002008-09-19T20:29:00.000+02:00Nicolas,I couldn't agree with you more !! I perso...Nicolas,<BR/>I couldn't agree with you more !! I personally think the new forum format is a debacle on MANY levels. The forums are completely unstable, the ability to effectively format posts has been degraded and the point system is the absolute <B>WORST</B> feature the forums could have adopted. If that wasn't enough, one can no longer determine what threads they have read or threads that have updated content. And FORGET about trying to utilize the search capabilities. For a company that was established on retrieving and utilizing data, it is unconscionable that Oracle can't provide an effective mechanism for searching within their own forums.<BR/><BR/>It's quite evident that individuals are coming out of the wood work to contribute worthless postings that are reiterations of answers that have already been provided by previous posters in the same thread. It's almost a race for folks to be the last person to submit a response in hopes that they will be the ones awarded points. The philosophy of points enhancing the forum content and/or credibility is doing nothing but breeding contempt among the posters and as you mentioned, provoking many of the longtime posters to stop contributing. <BR/><BR/>For a multi-billion dollar company, in my opinion, the Oracle forums are a complete embarrassment for Oracle and debasement from the previous format. I honestly can't suggest one thing that is an improvement to the forums. The forums' environment has degenerated to the point that it no longer gratifying to contribute. I understand that the forum administrators mention that updates/fixes to the forums are currently being worked on, but WHY would the current format be released with so many broken parts ?? Unfortunately, it appears that the <B>meaningless</B> point system is here to stay and many of the esteemed contributors may not be.<BR/><BR/>Just my opinion of course ! Fortunately, there are other Oracle forums on the net.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07959990140997967707noreply@blogger.com