How has the iPhone affected the Fluther community?

more people :) I’m an iPhone fluther member and damn proud of it ;P

Ya, but a lot of the old timers are not so proud of us.

I’m on iPhone to I think its all the iphone question and youth with game question

I have an iPhone, and I love checking Fluther with it, but I wish that all you could do on an iPhone was browse and not post. Or perhaps you had to have a score above 100 before you could post from an iPhone.

I realize that it is great to have this influx of traffic due to the iPhone, but the site is suffering because of it. The quality of the questions has really gone downhill in a hurry, and if something is not done to stop the overflow of, let’s face it, stupid and lazy questions, then there won’t be any reason to visit Fluther.

It’s not the iPhone as a device, nor is it the influx of iPhone users, it’s the quality of many of the incoming iPhone users…many of what are being called “old school users” are also iPhone users-I just hate being lumped in with what I am seeing is an issue of high school or less mentality, lack of sensitivity, etc.

Even 13 year olds on here from other countries have more common decency, compassion, and overall good manners to respect feelings over some of the “adult” users, and have the self control to leave that catty b**&s^&* at home.

It’s the individual lack of integrity that most of these newbs have that is really bringing “the love” down.

Biggest issues I see with iPhone only users:

-Lack of knowledge/use of search function to pre-check questions;

-Lack of understanding about the “Fluther” culture and etiquette (you hear me say this one a lot);

-Misuse of the question/answer posting format; how many here are SICK of seeing questions that look like this: “I have a problem…” or “Do you know what to do…”?
C’mon, just ask the question on the first page, it’s so annoying to have to click through to read the rest…which leads me to my last problem:

-iPhone users have NO flagging mechanism, neither on the question page nor from within the thread! I know the Fluther gods are hard at work on that one, but it can’t come soon enough!

I know that the Fluther gods are hard at work on a solution, even though it’s not apparent just yet…keep hope alive!

Yrs

yes

I’m with @sndfreQ on this one. in an earlier post i highlighted what had happened to spelling and grammar. and my pet peeve is that people don’t seem to check their work. their reason; I’m on an iphone. This is no reason its a pitiful excuse the iphone has a qwerty keyboard for a reason.

It’s not that I have an issue with the iPhone users, or iPhone ownership at all; it’s the sheer volume of the same iPhone tech-related questions that keep popping up over and over again. People aren’t googling these first, or checking to see if they’ve been answered before.

Can you say POPULATION BOOM! I remember getting two “question for me” a day now I get 50. I can’t keep up so I disregaurd most.