I've (mostly) been following my grandfather's maxim that if you have nothing to say, you should say nothing. So far, I have learned more from some of the links, including ones posted by other students, than from the course itself. That is fair enough, since it has to cover the whole range of research experience from the beginning. It does seem less professional than I expected though, and I am surprised that there has been no acknowledgement of the Hangouts fiasco.
From the comments being posted before the course had even begun, I felt that a great many people had misunderstood the nature of it, and were expecting advice for their particular problems instead of a general guide to how to go about researching. Now, some seem just to want to chat about their research, some seem less open-minded than one would expect of researchers, and I am astounded at how many have apparently been researching for some time but seem never to have looked beyond a certain well-advertised website, or made any attempt to read up on genealogy.
There's been occasional unintended humour too, perhaps caused by predictive text changing words. If the poster is reading this, I apologise for laughing, but I really cracked up when, in response to the sections on planning ones research, someone described going off on a tandem and coming up against a brick wall! Ouch!
