Folding Forum

Obviously this community is where really old programmers go to die. An elephant graveyard so to speak.

I created an expanded version of this poll since a lot of information seems to be lost in the 5+ category.

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As I'm sure you know, any survey you conduct here is statistically unsound because of the small sample size.

There are LOTS of Donors with lesser technical skills who never join the forum.

I know of no way to "prove" my unsubstantiated assertions, but I believe the following:
1) FAH is more likely to attract technically oriented folks that other DC projects.
2) Those who register for and become active on foldingforum.org tend to be a more the more technically oriented subset of the total FAH community.
3) More technically oriented individuals tend to develop programming skills.

[off-topic]Speaking now from the perspective of providing technical support to the Donor community as a whole, my goal is to provide whatever kind of support fits the situation. That means explaining things in much greater detail to the non-technically oriented person than the so-called "expert." It's often difficult to know which type of answer is needed and we do get follow-up questions from newbies saying they don't know how to do "X" and we also are faulted by a few "experts" for "talking down to them." I guess that means we're taking a reasonable middle road most of the time.[end-of-diversion]