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| foomench:
--- Quote from: GGKoul on August 19, 2004, 04:24:57 pm ---Example of using the Search Function: If I was interested in searching for posts regarding a 4 player panel I was interested in building. You would search for: "4 Player Control Panel" - Match as Phrase Search Main Forum. --- I just did a search for this phrase for the past 90 days. And I got over 27 posts using this tag. --- End quote --- I'm guessing that 27 is only a small percentage of those that are actually relevant. What about the threads that use "4P CP"? -foomench |
| Dave_K.:
Sorry for being obvious, but BYOC was built to be one giant FAQ...and newbies need to look around the entire site (not just read some pinned post at the top of the main forum to get information). I think some newbies link directly to the forums (through a google search) and don't even know the rest of the site exists! If you don't have a list of FAQ's on the left hand side of the page with arcade buttons of all colors, then go back to the homepage to load that frame http://www.arcadecontrols.com |
| captainpotato:
I, for one, as a newbie of sorts who is about to start building his first cabinet tomorrow with any luck (yeah, been saying that for weeks...), I'd like to think that I didn't post anything really obvious and embarassing to date (go on, prove me wrong...) - well, at least nothing covered in FAQs, that is. I have my software up and running, including hardware support, I'm on the way to making my own spinners (without any information from here - it just seems so obvious, although if (when?) I fail you can all remind me of this post...), and so forth. Maybe I am just too up myself, but given the hours I have spent reading and searching the fora and site, I hope I haven't done the usual newbie thing :) |
| FoX:
I definately hit the original FAQ. Read through pretty much every post to give myself a general understanding right off the bat. When the FAQ was inaccessible for a few days I had to go and create another just to make sure that kind of knowledge wasn't lost. I'm sure I asked quite a few "stupid" questions that were answered previously but I know I put in an effort to find the answers. Part of the problem is with individual posters. There is a wealth of info in some of these threads but the title for them is so bad that you would never know. Threads with the title "I NEED HELP!!" or "Joystick question" does little to tell what the thread is about. |
| enchntr:
One thing you might want to remember regarding the search function and the FAQ...I'm a part of a couple of other communities out on the web, and sometimes data is purged due to space limitations on the BB and the server it resides on. I think the FAQ is probably more important than the search function in most cases because of this limitation. Just something to think about. |
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