It wouldn't be a true analysis as you can buy EZ-Robot products from other retailers. Just curious but why would you be interested in that statistic?

While I'm not surprised I am top for questions answered I did expect the gap to be much smaller, especially as I've not answered many at all in the last 3-6 months.

I guess it also flags up the drop in my engagement here over the last 3 months too.

hi rich

it was just an idea if some by alot off parts he/che will also have spare parts. so iff someone robot is defect they can contact eachother and have there , robot fast repaired.

I really would't want everybody to know what I'm buying and how much.

I think it would be cool to have 2 different sections of the forum. The first would be for those who are using Revolution robots. This would reduce the number of posts someone new would have to look through to find an answer on a specific robot. The second section would be for those who are doing things outside of the Revolution product base.

I also see value in keeping these together as it would help people to make a smooth transition from Revolution to non Revolution robots and would give both groups visibility to all posts. I just dont know how confusing it is for someone who is trying to program a Revolution robot to see great information on a B9, R2 or Inmoov build. I dont know, I see benefits to keeping them together and to splitting the topics apart.

dave

it says not what you by or spending..

In that case mine would be very misleading since I purchased a large quantity of EZ-Bit cube extensions which would put the quantity of items higher than someone else who may have bought 40 revolution robots.

Touching on Mr Cochran's post of searching through less posts, the search function of the forums is very powerful and has always had the ability to filter posts to specific items with keywords and more importantly tags (of which there are tags for each of the revolution robots). For instance, all Revolution Robot topics are here. Where as all EZ-Script topics are here.

That is true if people choose the correct tags when they make the initial post. Unfortunately that isn't always the case.

Previously, there were not a set of robots that were unique to ez-robot. Students and schools didn't have these robots. Teachers who are new to these products may be hesitant to allow their students to have access to this site when anyone can post anything on this site. Also, the revolution robots use a specific set of components that can be shared among them. This used to not be the case here as everyone who built had to either hack or build from scratch.

What I have seen is that there are a lot of builders who don't come around much anymore. The questions being asked seem to be far more about scripting or functions in ARC, or the "I didn't setup my jd correctly and now he is broken" type question. I think that the community is far more dumbed down now than it was a year ago. I am not saying that anyone is dumb but the level of the questions in the Community discussions is far more basic. I believe this is why some have lost interest in the community and why it has less involvement than a year ago. Splitting the two would allow you to either be in an area where design questions are being posted, or in an area dedicated to EZ-ROBOT specific components.

Either way, I'm good, but my students will not be allowed to use the community. The school has looked at the forum multiple times and either found robots with nipples , off color comments or something someone is thinking is funny. They won't allow it.

We do not have the resources to moderate and participate in two forums, unfortunately. Although, there is nothing stopping you from creating a forum of your own for advanced users

Do remember, these new comers may be asking about their jd robots - and those questions may seem simple, but there was a time that our questions were simple as well. Every time someone comes on the forum asking a "simple" question, we put effort toward the tutorials to prevent it from happening again.

The number of questions from revolution owners hasn't changed much - as in the early days it was "how do I make a walle". New comer questions are the same but different. These new comers look up to your robots, as well. That's why they're here - aspire to become an expert like all of you.

You can make a forum of your own, but that would damage the balanced ecosystem which has evolved on here over theast 3.5 years. I'd be sad to see a desperation.