Jay, I am also of the opinion that the same questions are asked, most of
the issues have been answered before, and are available on Tigers
United, or this web page archives. While there are some questions that
may not be answered, like the recent issue of timing chain, the rest
have been "Asked and Answered" over and over and over.
The articles and responses take time to prepare, and if the person
asking the question doesn't even take the time to look, then these
articles will diminish or stop.
I often respond to off line, but get discouraged by the person lack of
even a simple investigation of these two sites, and when I ask, 90%+ say
they never looked.
I can tell you this will continue to discourage additional responses
from those who may have a specific answer, because it's the same old
question, ie "Cooling".
Larry
On 3/28/12 1:28 AM, Jay Laifman wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> So, in honor of my dad, and to help Tigers United and the Tiger community, I
> have been going through all the archived emails here. My goal is to bring
> together the emails on each subject, and then summarize them. Sort of like a
> "real life" supplement or companion to the Workshop Manual. I thought it
> would be a great tool for people to zero in on the exact thing they need an
> answer to. People are always asking the list questions, to get someone
> suggest that they should do a search of the archives first. The idea was
> already started on Tigers United, but it looks like it stopped back in '99.
> http://tigersunited.com/techtips/tech_threads/tech_threads.asp
>
> Then I started to notice a trend in the old emails. There is a group of guys
> who routinely answer questions. One of those guys of course was my dad. And
> 8 times out of 10, he would be posting a link to Tigers United with the issue
> already addressed. But, did that end the dialog? Nope, of course not.
> Everything the person ever wanted to know about was just handed to them on a
> silver platter. But it didn't matter.
>
> I kind of attribute this to two things. The first is that people really want
> to have the dialog - the human interaction. The next is that people are
> looking for a specific issue and don't want to read through long articles
> themselves, or it's just easier and more efficient to work through the answer
> with others.
>
> So, maybe my compilation will all be for naught - and before you know it, I'll
> be posting links to Tigers United and the posting will still keep going. Ha!
> I just did this the other day about cooling, and exactly that happened.
> Well, on the plus side, I'll learn a great deal.
>
> Ha!
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