[Bob Kerr]

I am surprised & a bit disappointed how few contributors there are compared to when I joined the Profile family 10 years ago. I know we lost of contributors (without mentioning names) because of their abusive use of the site but I miss the raporte that I experienced 4 or 5
years ago

Bob Kerr

[samhill]

Bob Kerr, on 04 July 2011 - 07:00 PM, said:

I am surprised & a bit disappointed how few contributors there are compared to when I joined the Profile family 10 years ago. I know we lost of contributors (without mentioning names) because of their abusive use of the site but I miss the raporte that I experienced 4 or 5
years ago

Bob Kerr

Beats me!

Seems to me that the questions in the "blue" zone are getting more interesting, though.

Everyone is running around in all directions.

[Paperworker]

samhill, on 05 July 2011 - 03:39 PM, said:

Beats me!

Seems to me that the questions in the "blue" zone are getting more interesting, though.

Everyone is running around in all directions.

One of the reasone we lost contributers is the attitude of some people towards people asking questions. They seem to thing I have to be a CA before I can ask anything. We all have to start somewhere and after 30 years in the businesss I still dont know it all and I dont dare ask a question on this forum because of the replies I gotlike "Why are you doing taxes if you dont know the answer to that" " This forum is for profesionals only". My answer to this is "If you are such a professional you must have thousands of clients and you must be working 24hours a day and if so how do you find time to read this forum and put people down?" This is my 2 cents worth.

[buck512]

Yes, I agree Paperworker, and well said. Sometimes people won't dare ask questions without feeling intimidated. That's maybe fine with tax questions but it shouldn't hold true if a new users is still trying to master the Profile program. It seems the more you learn the less you really know.

[Dink Meeker]

Well, now you can feel free to ask all the questions you want..... there just won't be anybody around to answer them. :(

[JohnV]

Bob Kerr, on 04 July 2011 - 10:00 PM, said:

I am surprised & a bit disappointed how few contributors there are compared to when I joined the Profile family 10 years ago. I know we lost of contributors (without mentioning names) because of their abusive use of the site but I miss the raporte that I experienced 4 or 5
years ago

Bob Kerr

Actually it was Intuit's abuse of their forum powers to silence these people you mention as well Bob. A forum is a community and Intuit saw us\sees us as a resource they could\can lever.

Though I in no way excuse individual behaviour or instances that got out of hand, the bigger picture was a difference in expectations as to what kind of tax and accounting support can\should be obtained here and by whom?

Now I've never been a QBgreen or TTblue regular (or whatever colours\names are in this year), but I've seen some of the action and it was generally accountants and tax preparers arguing that tax and accounting is not easy with users who were sold on believing they were getting exactly that.

Here at the Profile forum, you are expected to have some basics, and moreover, to know that you cannot really answer any issue presented without asking added pertinent questions to place things in context, or that if you can and do answer directly, that the person asking will undertand exactly what you are saying, and will use the information appropriately.

So I as an observer, saw Intuit side with their users against their forum accountants and to the detriment of the accounting community.

And I was, as you pointed out, not alone.

Paperworker, I do not recall you, and I mean no disrespect to your qualifications, but as I noted, this is a community. Perhaps had you answered some questions with your 30 years experience before asking one that was not well taken, then it would have been an aberration ...you would have already established your credibility. If instead you announce yourself with what the experience of the community believes is a boneheaded question, then yeah, maybe you become the straw that breaks the camel's back so to speak :)


And Buck, the software questions were never the issue, it was the difference between tax law and GAAP vs questions asked.

These days you do have a places to go as an alternatives. My personal recommendation is the one run by the TAGteam, but then, being a member of that team, I am biased http://community.intuit.ca/discussion/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif