Need feedback: "People" page mock-up

YAAAAAY! I was bithin and swearing at you guys all morning, doublt triple and quadrouple posts due to server not reponding, time outs and no posts after typing long responses. MAN I was pissed, then I noticed it was Thursday and you must be updating. A few minutes later, TR opens without a sigle hiccup, the page is just THERE in front of you and with MY DISCUSSIONS BACK !!!!!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!

Now as for your mockup....

I personally like th elook and feel of it but I have been having problems with it too.

I have been receiving QUITE A LOT of peer mail with questions. People are just looking at my interests and per mailing me instead of using Tech Q&A. They also don't realize that you can't reply to peer mail and they hardly ever include an address for reply.

It is REALLY annoying to opn my mail and have 8 or 10 questions from peers that I can't reply to and furthermore SHOULDN'T reply to. They aren't people who have posted to Tech Q&A and are looking for MORE information on a response I've offered, they are complately bypassing it as if I have a PLEASE CONTACT ME WITH YOUR ISSUES link or something.

I have seen similar on other sites where if you have a question, you look for the people associated with the problem and email them, I don't want this from TR and will quickly ditch my peer contact link if it continues.

I know it isn't YOUR fault, but it seems to be a result of adding my Interests to my profile page.

Funny enough, nobody has asked about Ford trucks or Bosche parts yet. :D

But Tech Q&A is now becoming "Email this guy for an answer". While it promotes community, it also promotes peer mail full of questions.

I have received other friendly peer emails lately too that I cannot reply to, people don't realize that peer mail has no reply feature and they need to add an email address. Perhaps adding some copy at the peer mail link would help.

"Please use Technical Q&A for you questions, so that everyone can benefit from the replies.

The peer you are contacting cannot 'reply' to peer mail sent through this website, please ensure you add your email address if you need a response."

Looks good to me. Call it People, Profiles, TR Trolls, or anything that turns your screw. Information (ease of finding, in particular) is my main concern.

I complained about lack of return e-mail addresses in peer messages a while back. Oz finally noticed also (probably too busy metering his thingy profile). It's presenting a real problem. We seem unresponsive to real problems. Sure, some are blatant bypasses of the system, but most I get are from people needing help with a TQ&A response.

Dalton

TR will be sending you the Peers E-Mail address so you can respond to each and every question. :D

I'd be looking at a couple of K a day actually so between you and Chas you will be taking over the T Q&A section so we'll have no more server delays. :)

Of course it will mean that you 2 will become the unpaid TR Help line but think of it this way it will give you something to do! :(

Col ]:)

I seme to be able to spare one. LOL :p

NA NA NA NA NA!!!!

You could find you're self listed with an old Avatar which everyone complained about. :)

I suppose OZ and his ilk will be insisting that me eye is still following them around the room. ]:)

Col

Wouldn't that actually make you a tessaract?

Could it be? Is House actually be one of the dread Old Ones come forth amongst us in all his fell and terrible radiant glory?

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Someone else sent me a direct quetsion. I just pointed to Tech Q&A and explained that I didn't know the answer anyway, which I honestly didn't.

I did ask what made her decide to peer mail me, and she said she read a few ansers I had provided to similar questions but nobody else had a contact link 'active'. THis firther enforcing the need to make SOME formof contact mandatory or at least strongly recommended. Now if TR was to hide addresses on both ends and act as the middle man as they used to, and if they made it clear it is anonymous, people wouldn't have such a problem with accepting contacts.

Either that or at LEAST make it madatory tat IF you want to help in Tech Q&A you have an active ocntact link or 'IF you wish to email someone YOU must also have an active link', the latter isn't so bad!

You just need to act like a T-rex and have a personal posse of velcioraptors at your beck and call for them to be respectful.

Maybe this could be a new project management philosophy called, "Eating the competition! The South Seas Project Management Method."

That idea! :D

Of course I would have to modify it a bit as eating my own staff would only create more work for me and I already don't have enough time in a day to do all I need to. :(

But beating them all up a bit would do no harm at all. Perhaps even revoking their ability to steal my classic cars to use as work vehicles which I never intended them for would not go astray either. The only down side there though is one of the guys got T Boned by a semi in the right hand side and sought of walked away from the crash which I'm certain he would not have been capable of if he was in the supplied car as it is a recycled pet food container.

Exit 1 irreplaceable 280SE Mercedes but keep a staff member actually come to think of it "I WANT MY MERCEDES BACK!" He would eventually have got better even if he did have a severe limp and it would have taught him to look before he drove through a green light, fully loaded semi's are just not the thing to tangle with they to me fall into the same category as trains you don't want to be anywhere near them at all! :)

A new car should be the ideal and not a 30 something year old Mercedes as a work vehicle. It's a pity that the guys don't see it that way, now if I could only understand just what it is that they see in my collection of Classic Cars and Motorcycles? It actually got so bad last week that one of them took my wifes Mercedes for the day didn't I get hell for that! He had some lame excuse that he had to pickup a printer and he needed the two door for it to fit inside. It would certainly have helped me no end if he hadn't just walked up to my wife and told her that I had told him to get her keys and he gave her his keys. I of course knew nothing about this at all but I got the blame anyway. :(

Col ]:)

1) I like the people page... originally (a couple of months ago) the peer directory was a barren wasteland; it has improved ten-fold and I like the link to the idea

2) https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5226-6257-0.html
This one could use a little work, and is not all that vital to the profile page anyways. I don't care for it at all. Sorry guys. I'm being honest. A few tech related defaults are fine, but we were getting out of hand with the options available.

I'm informed that they do have rules here for horse racing but getting them enforced unless some injury occurs could be a bit of a problem.

I believe that they call things like you described as "Racing Incidents!" ;) And let it go unless the jockey has a history of doing things like that or for that matter the horse as some of those things are a bit hard to control must be all of that training that they go through and underweight jockeys racing them when they have far heaver guys training them so the racing jockey just doesn't have enough weight to rein them in. At least when we race camels over here we do not buy children to ride them.

I learned a very long time ago that betting on horse racing is a Mugs Game and the only real winners are the Book Makers just like in any criminal activity it is always the Lawyers who get the money and for them at least Crime does pay.

Col ]:)