Who should TechRepublic recruit?

I have given much consideration to this article ever since you first posted it yesterday. To be completely honest, my reaction was one of incredulity. It has changed little.

My opinion. There is little need to run out and recruit "star players" at the present. Talent doesn't make a shop half as much as the support they run on. What I mean is this, TR has become the land of the disappearing post. I noticed earlier that this has apparently infected the work of one of your fellow editors Bill Detwiler, if not that malidy then most definately he has been striken with the curse of the unpostable post, oooops! now we have three copies.

These two items are causing no end of headache. I've had posts take forever to appear and therefore, they are generally no longer relevent or timely to the subject and often, no only serve to confuse the matter. I have had posts that have shown up 24 hours later in Tech Q&A which was missing information and therefore, I am quite sure, terribly confusing to the author. As it stands I have an answer hanging out somewhere in your Db right now that isn't showing up.

Recruit top talent? Not until you fix the ghosts in your machines as they stand, otherwise, it'll just be a waste of everyone's time.

To put it in one of the colorful eupamisms that folks are famous for where I grew up, "You can't polish a turd, it just makes a bigger mess".

Please, fix the problems at hand first. Leave the other philosophy to MS.

Just Q&A on an answer and comment. I've just experienced it today. One window only. The person who placed an answer and the comment I responded with, also remarked that it had disappeared. he posted another answer and I commented again and it disappeared again. the other answer I had received was still there. I had received the answer I wanted so I closed it this afternoon.

In Discussion center I have had comments take up to 24 hours to post as well as taking several tries to get it to go up, meaning, when submitting, I have gotten page currently not available. Refresh, there it is, sometimes, but if so, duplicated. Thanks TR for the additional cool points during debate.

I have also experienced the same in Q&A. Recently I had a post that didn't register until after the inquiry was closed. To date, both commments and responses. Haven't had anything with submission yet.

I have had multiple windows open to the web but not to TR concurrently. As for the duration, about 2 months now, maybe a little longer.

Anyway, that's my two cents.

about noon that things started going kinda batty.

Then I noticed between 3 and 4pm ET that the formatting of the pages changed and that I no longer could see previously used links in a different colour.

Was your tweak an upgrade? If so, is there a way you can set it to show previously visited links?

That'd be a great improvement. Then, recruit me to do QA :)

I had my post show up 2 or 3 days later in the past week. I only had one window open when I posted it.

I've also noticed if I hit the back button after posting instead of return to discussion, My post will appear twice.

Over the past 2 months I've had my posts disappear and reappear. This seems to happen in longer threads.

Interesting that the initial responses are feedback about functionality and they're skirting the question posed by Trivia Geek....maybe because it makes the editorial staff sound a little needy, bordering on desperate? Isn't this akin to NBC-TV asking its viewers, hey which actors from ABC and CBS should we recruit for shows on our networks? Just my two cents.

I have experienced this in Technical Q&A recently. For example on a question(I pasted the link below) I posted an answer and it initially showed up, but when I went back a couple of hours to see if it had been rated, it was no longer there, but there were several other posts after mine. So, today I checked again and mine is there again and in the correct order. I only have one session to TR open.

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6239-0.html?forumID=47&threadID=171690&start=0

Here we go:

Rick Needham:

He could write a column for managers telling them why the cool stuff they saw on CNet really won't work in their environment.

Molly Wood:

She could host an annual "Stupidest User to Call the Helpdesk" competition. The winner would be banned for life from ever touching a computer again under penalty of the Patriot Act.

Janice Chen:

She could write articles about how if you sit in a makeup chair for 3 hours, you can look just as good as any other TV personality and still not have a rational, linear thought in your head.

The honest truth is that the CNet management treats this place like a red-headed step-child. If they were serious about building membership and traffic, the site would merge with Cnet. It isn't like our technical commentary doesn't show up on the forums regularly....

So my advice is get the CNet-ers off the buttocks and participate if they are serious in moving this place forward.

now it has happened to me in the discussions. this bytes.

maybe having a Q&A with people in various areas?

For instance, perhaps having a session with the outgoing FCC Chairman Michael Powell about things such as VoIP, BBoPL, etc? Or requesting a Q&A with someone like Mark Cuban?

It would be cool just to hear commentary on current issues from those who are involved in various aspects of technology, without having to worry about "recruiting".

Never know...some of them might like the idea of getting to put themselves in front of a more technical audience for exposure.

I don't know if that is really what you're looking for, but it's just a suggestion.

Just ducky. Where the heck have YOU been hiding???

Nice to see you around, someone was just asking what had happened to some familiar faces/avatars here.

Haven't seen you on here for a while!... I thought you bit the big one in the last duck hunting season :)