TooStep, a so called professional forum, has very few discussions that truly add value to your professional life.

TOO STEP arranged a good platform for the people to come close and share their ideas which will show their impact on their daily life . TOO STEP will soon get the power to change the society

I agree people just for heck of it are posting any debate, I recently saw a debate wherein a senior citizen was aksing about teh dres code of females!!!!

What has too step got to do with female dress code, heavens where are we heading,and one thing i have noticed is people always wnat to increse their point size, if you see anybody with more than 2000 points ask that perosn t join soem group, why ?

I do nto see many people on too step who used to give their regular comments any more have they retired form too step due to this poor quality debate if that is true then I regret to state thsi is a loss for all of us

Perhaps, Mr. Deshpande has a point there. I am one of the earliest members of Toostep. I am also a member OF LinkedIn, Facebook and Peergroups, and twitter and few other. Finding Toostep simple to use, I created 5 different communities in Toostep and have over 4000 contributions in the form of Insights, Debates, Ideas and Q&As and Comments in other’s postings.

Toostep started as a good forum for mature discussions. The problem as on today is that a sizable portion of members are only interested in posting articles, debates and Q&A's, without even bothering to look whether  the same issue is already under discussion or debate and try to join in or associate their topic also with those.  

Many new members, whenever they see an interesting topic in the forum, start another one of their own on the same issue / subject. We also see of many new members are not interested in giving comments and opinions on other's posting or even make any follow up of comments on their on postings. I doubt that many even care to read, evaluate, summarise and rate comments even of theier own posting. May be that is why you find the site so drab to you now, and I don't blame you for that.

Mr. Deshpande, i am also new to too step. I have joined approx. 3months back,. I didn't feel too much changes maybe problem is continuing before my joining. But your point is right that all debates are not up to mark. I had seen too many repetition of topic in short period of time. Some are meaning less. But there are so many topics which are quite good. We can continue with good debates, topics whereas ignore meaningless discussion. I had tried to ask some meaningful topics here, but will try my best to improve as per our expectation. 

TRUTH ALWAYS SOURS.IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE.THERE IS NO CONSISTENCY IN PEOPLE RESPONDING TO CONTRIBUTE. REGARDING THE STANDARD OF ENGLISH BY RESPONDENTS BETTER NOT TO DISCUS.THERE ARE REGULAR ONE WORD RESPONSES OR AFFIRMATIVE RESPONSES,WITH VERY LITTLE CONTRIBUTION. 

Yes ... Mr Deshpande, as u r new, U may just ignore the below remarks :

Just a few hrs back, in replying a Question-posting I started like this :

" .. Most often talks are not supported by (historical) data, fact, reality, logic and even knowledge of the experts. Loose talks, floating ideas and assumctions etc. may mar the whole discussion on a Professional platform like TooStep ."

-- the other day somebody was writing that some of the Question postings are just the digital version of Economic Times, nothing elementary .. !

-- if copy_pasted from elsewhere no show of "courtsey" to that site/ writer  - at least we may mention as Copy_Pasted

 As has been highlighted by one of our oldest member on TooStep, participats do not :

- evaluate others' remarks/ postings going thru thoroughly

- thams up or thums down if in a hurry ( either 0 or 1  )

- revisit their own postings and look for the review of that

I have to ask to TooStep : have U engaged some staff for posting questions ? If so, please help them to upgrade their knowledge/ skill .

However, Mr Deshpande is welcome here and we wish, to some extent, he will be here as "Change Agent" so long he is not frustrated.

Agree with you, Mr. Deshpande. I've been on TooStep for a fairly long time and have become somewhat disillusioned by this site thus don't visit it as frequently as I used to.

A professional is a person having expertise and specialized knowledge in field which one is practicing professionally. S/he is a 'go-to person' in the field which one is practicing professionally.

The members of this site tend to post anything on everything, irrespective of its relevance to their domain. They don't come across as professionals but as generalists who have to express their opinion just because they have one. And often there is lots of repetition.

The professionals on this site seem to be on this site just for the sake of virtual networking. The value of social networking, especially for businesses, is in the opportunity to form real, genuine relationships with people and organizations who are relevant to your business, and who may be far less approachable in real life than they are on the Web. Despite the efforts of some serious members, we have not been able to organize a meetup.

Abraham Sir, You spoke my mind. I am relatively a new member and when I joined around 6-8 months back, the quality of debates and ideates were so high but recently it is so detoriated that some meaningless and one liners without a clear idea about the topic are posting. I posted a question on the same topic also. Some times I feel that there is no use of so many connections or followers. I can count on my finger tips how many are actively participating. Hope things will change.

Gargi:

Thank you for joining in this debate and for your input and tips on ways to better utilize this platform!

I agree with you when you say that TooStep is interesting. I have found it very interesting. But, what I am trying to gauge here is whether this platform, like linkedin, will be a value add for me professionally, or, it is a "social networking platform" and not a "professional networking platform"