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Why no step-by-step guide?
SirPeale:
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--- Quote from: thrdbace on December 14, 2004, 02:45:47 pm ---for such an active forum, with lost of information, why hasn't anyone compiled a step-by-step guide?
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You do realize there's one on the main page of the site: http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm Click the Newbie Guide buttons on the left
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Not only that, but it numbers amongst the first in the newbie links, stickied at the top of this page.
DrewKaree:
Ummmm, unlinke Hiub's thoughts, to be an --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules-- (although I don't mean to be one, I know this will come off as being one, because I'm about to point out some of the obvious things the others were nice enough not to do to you, as I think you'll understand where your question is going astray - I agree with the premise, though)
--- Quote from: thrdbace on December 14, 2004, 02:45:47 pm ---for such an active forum, with lost of information, why hasn't anyone compiled a step-by-step guide?
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Several folks have now pointed out that someone has, in fact, compiled such a guide. There is a thread here on it, and ONE member even wrote a BOOK on it ;) I'm betting he uses the profits from the book to help fund a websited dedicated to this very purpose ;)
--- Quote ---it seems like the simplest of questions is routinely repeated on these forums...sure, people can do a search, through a million posts for "trackball installation"...but that isn't very helpful sometimes.
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as evidenced by your very own post that a search could have easily brought you an example.
I wonder how many questions Spystyle's step-by-step guide has answered....I wonder how many questions about Saint's "guide" are routinely repeated.....more importantly, and to answer your question - I wonder how many folks actually use the search button to do a search on something they are interested in.
Having the guides are nice, they just simply won't stop tons of routinely repeated questions. They also don't give someone a chance to say "howdy, and welcome to the forums", and they (as you pointed out yourself) aren't "very helpful sometimes".
Your very own post answered exactly the questions you put forth, and did so in a manner that should show exactly why it doesn't matter if people continually post the same info - it may be annoying, but it allows someone to be a helpful contributor and perhaps teach them something that another forum on the 'net won't - what to do, what not to do, how to search, why you should search - even if we are harsh on a person, a simple perusal of this forum will show you that the members here are - FAR AND AWAY - nicer and more helpful than any other board out there. They'd get MURDERED at other forums for asking the questions they do, and while they DO get a few flesh wounds here, they'll live to annoy another day ;)
--- Quote ---I'd like to see a step-by-step guide...how to install a button/joystick/trackball ... the best way to mount monitors...building your cab/designing your cab/materials .... connecting controls to an interface, grounding your interface...tricks to using lexan ... etc ... etc ...
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Each forum has several examples like you speak of. Perhaps you've checked the sticky posts that conglomerates all these forums into a handy list of "how-to's". Or perhaps you've already started on your own list ;)
Good luck with re-inventing the wheel. ;)