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Why do you not post on the other forum?
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(11-19-2017, 03:42 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote:
(11-19-2017, 03:12 PM)Life Long Learning Wrote:
(11-18-2017, 10:26 PM)sanantone Wrote: The topic of activity slowing down on the other forum came up. I know why several of you don't post there, but I'd be interested in hearing input from others.

You started this in the other forum and they answered the question.

A Ph.D. said this is the JV forum and they the elitist other forum and Ph.D.'s are the Varsity. 

I find this forum 95% useful and that one about 5%.

For undergraduate info, I would totally agree.  But for graduate info, the other board and specialist boards are much more information than here.  I am on too many, most of the time just lurking for details, such as deals for Black Friday/Cyber Monday, or reading new threads on Masters/PHD in Cybersecurity.

What education specialist boards?
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I read a whole bunch of forums, some are international student forums - there are a few that's larger than this and the sister board combined. However, they're for "students" talking about everything from buying/selling hardware - purchasing books to partying.
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DI always has peaks and valleys when it comes to how much educational content is posted about. In the lull, the off-topic posts tend to move to the top of the pile by default. You might have noticed that the vast majority of the politics-related threads are started by the same 2 people and that the heated discussions are usually by the same half-dozen or so. It's not like the site has morphed in front of our eyes, it's that with the current slowdown of activity, the few people who like to post in off-topic are shown more prevalently.

When it comes to the forum culture, I'll quote myself from a post I just made today on DI:

"DegreeInfo has a very rich history of its members challenging each other, expecting each other prove their point, having major disagreements and allowance for open debate. I think this is a good thing, but it's clearly not everyone's cup of tea and, of course, has at times gotten out of hand. That's the nature of dialectic."

Although I'm a member of both forums, I've always felt more welcome THERE than HERE. It could just be a difference in personality. I like being challenged, and called out when necessary, and I prefer to be able to do the same in return. I haven't reread some of the old posts that once got me banned from THIS site  Big Grin but I'd take a guess that that's also why I didn't fit in much here. 

Still, I owe a lot of people here a debt of gratitude for the guidance I was given and will never forget how encouraging you all were to me every time I came here to take a victory lap after an exam pass or degree completion. Depending on what decisions I make within the next year or so, there might be more of those to come.
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(11-19-2017, 07:11 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: I read a whole bunch of forums, some are international student forums - there are a few that's larger than this and the sister board combined.  However, they're for "students" talking about everything from buying/selling hardware - purchasing books to partying.

If any could benefit folks here please share! Big Grin
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(11-19-2017, 07:14 PM)Maniac Craniac Wrote: DI always has peaks and valleys when it comes to how much educational content is posted about. In the lull, the off-topic posts tend to move to the top of the pile by default. You might have noticed that the vast majority of the politics-related threads are started by the same 2 people and that the heated discussions are usually by the same half-dozen or so. It's not like the site has morphed in front of our eyes, it's that with the current slowdown of activity, the few people who like to post in off-topic are shown more prevalently.

When it comes to the forum culture, I'll quote myself from a post I just made today on DI:

"DegreeInfo has a very rich history of its members challenging each other, expecting each other prove their point, having major disagreements and allowance for open debate. I think this is a good thing, but it's clearly not everyone's cup of tea and, of course, has at times gotten out of hand. That's the nature of dialectic."

Although I'm a member of both forums, I've always felt more welcome THERE than HERE. It could just be a difference in personality. I like being challenged, and called out when necessary, and I prefer to be able to do the same in return. I haven't reread some of the old posts that once got me banned from THIS site  Big Grin but I'd take a guess that that's also why I didn't fit in much here. 

Still, I owe a lot of people here a debt of gratitude for the guidance I was given and will never forget how encouraging you all were to me every time I came here to take a victory lap after an exam pass or degree completion. Depending on what decisions I make within the next year or so, there might be more of those to come.

There are debates here all the time, but this forum mostly deals with fact-based content. Either a school accepts an exam or it doesn't. Either this course costs $500 or it doesn't. There's nothing to challenge on that. This is not a state of higher education forum, even though there are occasionally threads on that. This is primarily a degree completion forum. Everything doesn't have to be turned into an off-topic argument. That's the difference in culture.

It's very difficult to get banned here. The moderators have banned spammers, stalkers, extremely mentally ill people, and people posting sexual and racist imagery. What did you do?
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I like techexams.

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If I wanted to get an undergraduate or master's degree, I'd post here.

If I wanted to learn more about the field of higher education, or was interested in pursuing a doctorate, I'd post there.
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As with others, I've chosen to stay away from the other place due to the overabundance of genital-swinging and bladder evacuation contests. There are also a handful of more... "seasoned" members that simply can't be questioned without bringing down the wrath of a bunch of mindless me-too fools. This typically isn't a matter of friendly debate in the threads I've witnessed and suckered myself into participating in. There are a handful of these overbearing, self-righteous personalities that refuse to entertain the concept that they could actually be wrong about something, even when it's subject matter that they have no personal experience with.

Not saying that this is representative of all members there, and not saying that some of those same personalities don't show their faces here. But, the very vocal minority of jackasses has -- for me -- become the face of the other forum. Unless I'm looking for very specific information that I can't find here, I don't go there. Even when I do go there, I only do so to search for information, and almost never to actually get involved in a conversation.

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I prefer this forum. I am a longtime lurker in both. I found these forums in 2012 (would that I could go back and start then) but life got in the way. I have always seen this forum as more helpful than the other and stoped looking at the other completely. Perhaps it is that I find the other to be confusing. I can't seem to wade through the numerous offtopic posts, in order to find the useful information.
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For anything related to undergraduate, this forum is a superior source of information - hands down. For anything related to graduate, the other forum is a better source since most of the members there have master/doctorate degrees.
THAT SAID....
The other forum is a bit like a pub. Sometimes it's all about who is there that night and how much they've had to drink and what they're talking about when you walk in.

Let me also add, that the other forum has been around a LOT longer than this one, and the membership there makes me look like a newbie (I've also been there 10 years). There is a long history of rivalries there, but there is also a deep spring of knowledge about things that other people don't appreciate- how so and so started a diploma mill in 1978 and then opened ABC mill and then and then and then and now they're opening XYZ college..... the members there know all about it. Also, worth mentioning, is that Dr. John Bear is a contributing member there- he is really the first and foremost authority on distance learning (aka correspondence schools from way back) and has a lot of current knowledge as well.

The other forum also has an older membership (age-wise) and a dark sense of nerdy humor. Wink Not everyone appreciates that lol. As an example of a (unofficial, of course) game they regularly play, is to find people on LinkedIn with fraudulent degrees or credentials in positions of leadership and out them as liars or frauds.
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