Survey: What are you looking for from the GMAT forum?

Question

Figured it's time to go through calibration on deliverables for our members:

What are you looking for in the GMAT forum?

We have a number of items already posted (book reviews, test reviews, prep program reviews, strategy write ups, etc.). That being said:

What do you look for when searching?
What deliverables are you happy with?
What deliverables would you like to see?
What are we doing well?
What can we do better?

No poll, I want responses below. I will use the second post to post a table of what people want and we'll go from there.

shaselai · Answer

i think could there be a function that "matches" other threads that started? Like if someone posts "newbie need help - what should i do" - generally people respond with links of "beginner gmat threads". Maybe somehow to "suggest" threads to see before accepting new thread?

kissthegmat · Answer

What are you looking for in the GMAT forum? Ans: I'm looking for more experts on Verbal section! What do you look for when searching? Ans: My main concern is to get some help on improving Verbal section. I look for perfect answers. What deliverables are you happy with? Ans: I'm happy with Math section and Bunuel

What deliverables would you like to see? Ans: More experts on Verbal Section

What are we doing well? Ans: gmatclub tests and support provided by all the members! What can we do better? Ans: Provide more experts on Verbal section

Repeated so many times

redundant answer?

whiplash2411 · Answer

What are you looking for in the GMAT forum?
Generally, solutions to specific questions and generic advice on study strategies and the like. Sometimes more specific information about business schools, assessment of other profiles and advice from consultants.

What deliverables are you happy with?
Definitely the way the forum is managed. The math section is excellent. The verbal forum is well managed too, but having a verbal expert akin to Bunuel would be a great blessing. For a larger base of people considering at least 40-50% of the site's traffic are potential non-native speakers.

What deliverables would you like to see?
There could be better organization with respect to some of the threads - compilations, so to speak. And as it was mentioned, having a linking algorithm for similar threads would be a great idea, but perhaps harder to implement.

What are we doing well?
Definitely the GMAT Club Tests. There could be better explanations to that, and perhaps a more structured chat server, but apart from that, the site is terrific!

What can we do better?
Have more experts on board with certain specific forums (verbal), perhaps have a way to automatically screen out similar threads and just have a better organized compilation of similar threads.

[Would be glad to help out if possible!]

gurpreetsingh · Answer

We definitely need one Verbal expert. Also I would like to see 'Best answer' tag for the verbal questions. Sometimes it really becomes difficult to look for the best explanation.

Lets ask Bunnel he might be good at verbal too.....

kissthegmat · Answer

So much pressure on Bunnel! Poor Bunnel

whiplash2411 · Answer

Haha, he's really good at what he does; But I've never seen him post on any other forum.

osbornecox · Answer

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ezhilkumarank · Answer

My response:

What do you look for when searching?
Closest matches to the searched items. Also since there are so many posts, it would be great if the answers could be somehow rated and the best answers bubbling up the search results.

What deliverables are you happy with?
Definitely the way the Math forum is managed.

What deliverables would you like to see?
Maybe a template kind of structure for the questions which would make the questions easily search-able. There are a lot of duplicate posts and the moderators have to step in to merge the post. It would be great if the questions could be feed via a template which would scan and determine if the question is already posted earlier.

What are we doing well?
Members helping out each other. Study notes being shared across the board. Reaching out for comments and suggestions from members. Getting the best discounts from the GMAT prep companies.

What can we do better?
Definitely in delivering the content differently. Somehow I feel that the idea of posting question via regular post is a little seasoned. There should be a way to auto generate users-tests based on different factors like 
a) the number of incorrect responses posted for a question. 
b) time consumed to answer the question
c) question level -- 600, 600-700, 700+ level.

The test should have the same look and feel as that of the GMAT Prep and maybe other cool features.

mohater · Answer

thanks to those who have responded

bump
any other thoughts?

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