triumphtt
Juvie Member
1st off sorry if someone made of suggestion for this I did do a search but didn't come across one. I wouldn't be surprised if there hasn't been a request made yet.
Anyway I was just going through some pages old pages and had a few people ask when I was going to make a few How to's since I had mentioned doing so in a few posts. Then I got to thinking why don't we have a section on the site strictly for administrator/ member approved Tutorials or How To's? Basically my thought was for new members and old members trying new things to have a specific place to go and find a Tutorial or How To that has been voted or somehow determined to be the "Go to guide" by members. This could be determined by a number of things such as simplicity, information, easiest to follow, so on & so forth. That way when someone is looking for say how to breed superworms they don't have to do a search and go through all the different tutorials out there when they could go to the tutorial section and find say for example h0ndap0w3r's http://www.beardeddragon.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=100703. Just him as an example because of how well he wrote it and the help he got & used from other members. I think as a community we could have some of the best Tutorials/ How To's on the web if we do them all that way.
I came up with this because I have been wanting to do a How to breed superworm's Tutorial for a long time now and have read through h0ndap0w3r's and liked it so much I figured why bother. It would be pretty much be identical except a few small things I did differently. So I was going to contact him and see if he wanted to add some of my photo's & options I would give him to add to his tutorial. Then I noticed it was marked inactive (since it has been a very long time since it's been done). That is my proposal. I figured we as a community could put our heads & experience together and have the best tutorials out there as well as the easiest accessible.
I would be willing to try and come up with a starter template for us to use (with critiquing by others to make it best of the best of course). Also maybe a method of how everyone could get their input included without have a tutorial with 1000 pictures on it. A few ideas I had were to maybe have sub section in the General Tutorial section, so say using the superworm example, have a tutorial but then have sections for pictures just for each stage that way others can add their own pictures if they wish and also for people that like to see a bunch of different methods. That way if your just starting out your not relying on just one person's idea or photo's from that tutorial. I haven't really put much thought of how to organize this and have members "approve" other ways of doing things without making a ton of work for our admins who do plenty already. Maybe have approved members for each section. We could volunteer to do them or something like that. Just a thought. Also by a "approved way" I mean a way that has been suggested by a member and then researched by the people chosen to moderate that tutorial and is found to be lets say "safe" or "works" for better lack of words.
This is all just idea if this is actually put into action. I think everyone is kind of tired of looking through tutorials to find one that is #1 Trustworthy, #2 actually works, & #3 cost is actually realistic. Ex: making you own silkworm chow most anyone who has searched this realizes that you basically need to be a chemist to find some of the ingredients that are used in the manufactured chow and also the $ of those items to make you own don't justify the headache of taking on the task yourself and you are better off just buying it from the manufacturer.
Can't wait to hear what others think of the idea. I look forward to your comments.
Anyway I was just going through some pages old pages and had a few people ask when I was going to make a few How to's since I had mentioned doing so in a few posts. Then I got to thinking why don't we have a section on the site strictly for administrator/ member approved Tutorials or How To's? Basically my thought was for new members and old members trying new things to have a specific place to go and find a Tutorial or How To that has been voted or somehow determined to be the "Go to guide" by members. This could be determined by a number of things such as simplicity, information, easiest to follow, so on & so forth. That way when someone is looking for say how to breed superworms they don't have to do a search and go through all the different tutorials out there when they could go to the tutorial section and find say for example h0ndap0w3r's http://www.beardeddragon.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=100703. Just him as an example because of how well he wrote it and the help he got & used from other members. I think as a community we could have some of the best Tutorials/ How To's on the web if we do them all that way.
I came up with this because I have been wanting to do a How to breed superworm's Tutorial for a long time now and have read through h0ndap0w3r's and liked it so much I figured why bother. It would be pretty much be identical except a few small things I did differently. So I was going to contact him and see if he wanted to add some of my photo's & options I would give him to add to his tutorial. Then I noticed it was marked inactive (since it has been a very long time since it's been done). That is my proposal. I figured we as a community could put our heads & experience together and have the best tutorials out there as well as the easiest accessible.
I would be willing to try and come up with a starter template for us to use (with critiquing by others to make it best of the best of course). Also maybe a method of how everyone could get their input included without have a tutorial with 1000 pictures on it. A few ideas I had were to maybe have sub section in the General Tutorial section, so say using the superworm example, have a tutorial but then have sections for pictures just for each stage that way others can add their own pictures if they wish and also for people that like to see a bunch of different methods. That way if your just starting out your not relying on just one person's idea or photo's from that tutorial. I haven't really put much thought of how to organize this and have members "approve" other ways of doing things without making a ton of work for our admins who do plenty already. Maybe have approved members for each section. We could volunteer to do them or something like that. Just a thought. Also by a "approved way" I mean a way that has been suggested by a member and then researched by the people chosen to moderate that tutorial and is found to be lets say "safe" or "works" for better lack of words.
This is all just idea if this is actually put into action. I think everyone is kind of tired of looking through tutorials to find one that is #1 Trustworthy, #2 actually works, & #3 cost is actually realistic. Ex: making you own silkworm chow most anyone who has searched this realizes that you basically need to be a chemist to find some of the ingredients that are used in the manufactured chow and also the $ of those items to make you own don't justify the headache of taking on the task yourself and you are better off just buying it from the manufacturer.
Can't wait to hear what others think of the idea. I look forward to your comments.
in the feeders section.
