[Columbine]

I agree. We could create a couple of threads then to ease things up for Sashimaster? SM does an amazing job here, but i'm sure there's plenty of us in what Kyle calls the secondary group who could easily pick up on some of the beginner's questions and give SM more space to deal with the stuff that he's really adept at; aka all the upper intermediate and advanced questions where a native view is integral to getting the answer right. I've been thinking this for a while actually, but I wasn't sure it was my place to say anything. I really think a small over-haul of the section like this would help with the running of it, but of course, it requires voluntary effort from the regular members.

Anyway, I think pulling all the small-time and romaji stuff into it's own "beginners help" thread would make things cleaner all round. It would give others a chance to step up, without feeling like their butting in on the help thread and SM would only have to deal with the more serious learners. The intermediate thread could also have a "NO ROMAJI" condition on it. That get's the point of JF across nicely- even if you're fluent, if you can't read hiragana then we still consider you a beginner. I don't know. Maybe we could put up a "Learn Hirgana Here" thread to support the beginner's thread? I have some materials i wouldn't mind sharing. and I ~know~ there's a billion and one sites out there for this, but people never think to google and it might make life easier if we flag up some hiragana resources in a sticky if romaji is becoming a bone of contention.

It would also get the people who post to self-organize where they post and some of the small questions might not then get missed (which usually leads to double threads) in favor of the bigger questions.