How can I/we improve and tap into the Channel 9 community?

I made a post the other day asking questions about usability design in which I got a couple of very helpful responses, and I’m forever grateful to those that did respond. I look forward to a continuation of that conversation. Not just because it helps me but because it’s interesting to get other view points in a space that needs to be improved. Again thank you for that.

However in retrospect.

I've see very few posts here that are about improving technology and innovating the world we all presumably work in. Collective idea generation on how to improve a user experience or development methods. Perhaps these types of posts are not coffee house posts? I for one would like to see many more.

So what kind of posts make good conversation for you? What kinds of posts do people want to see? A debate on the best movie of all time, the latest youtube funny video. Or something that can improve us and that we can learn from, allowing us to tap into the many hundreds of years of collective development, marketing, and design experience that is here.

We talk about wanting a better c9, but in all that there are no(or very few) suggested cultural or content changing suggestions. Just things like “I can’t wait for an ignore feature”, a feature that I can honestly say I will never use.

If the interesting and thought provoking posts out weigh the troll and crap posts; would that not improve c9 content over all? Or do we truly require a button that allows us to exclude people from such a resource?

We seem to be gravitating toward controversy as opposed to intellect and I’m just starting to be confused as to what is c9 (besides MS) and what's it really good for. So many smart and creative people in one place. Seems we are all guilty of wasting a real treasure trove of idea generation and collective reasoning that could help every one of us in so many ways.

I have never seen a forum with such an abundance of experience, knowledge, and view points. I come back daily in the hopes of learning something from a very powerful and divers knowledge base.

How can I(we) as a community tap into this power? How can each I (one of us) benefit from it? How can I(we) do my/our part to get the ball rolling? Or am I hoping for miracles?

I use “I” as I don’t speak for others, and as most others am willing to give more then I receive.

There are allot of questions here. Discuss?

-jason

Disclaimer: I don’t exclude myself as being one of the folks that post crap on occasion.