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GGKoul:
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--- Quote from: GGKoul on December 27, 2004, 08:50:27 pm ---People aren't reading those stickys
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The same people wouldn't read the special board either.
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How do you know if you dont create it?
zvar:
--- Quote from: GGKoul on December 28, 2004, 12:51:00 am ---How do you know if you don't create it?
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While I understand what you are saying, I guess I'm just too cynical to believe people would actually go there and read the board. :)
Don't get me wrong, I do think it would be a good idea, if for no other reason than to not have to scroll past all the stickies that are in the various boards and to give one board to point the new posters to.
Steven
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: olsteve on December 28, 2004, 12:32:00 am ---The main site is way out of date and doesn't include 1% of the information that is contained in the forums. I think that the stickies are good but also the questions that get asked repeatedly should have a section on the main site. I know when I first started here I looked over the main site first to answer questions and didn't find many things.
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Go through and count all the posts in the main forum about: someone's project, their monitor, a front end, mp3's or jukeboxes, a console...each of these things that currently have a forum.
Then, look at all the questions posed that 75-85% answerable by reading the sticky posts. The CONSTANT pointing to another thread SHOULD be an indicator to some folks that the information is here.
Lastly, we've ALL read the "I don't use the search because of (insert excuse that is easily answered by searching)"
The "main site" isn't the area to get the latest up-to-date stuff OTHER than project submissions, what's going on with the website, and links to other areas of the site you want to go to.
The FORUMS here are for the latest news, help, and info.
The CP questions SHOULD be almost all there is in the main forum. That they aren't speak volumes as to the necessity of a CP forum.
I give you an example of what I'm speaking of below. As an aside, you'll also note the fact that in the screen snap I give below, you'll see 2 posts about CP's, and 2 others that PERHAPS may relate to CP's (although they don't).
Out of the twelve I offer for example, EIGHT are better placed in other forums.
The "Everything Else" SHOULD be the one mods are moving stuff from the most, but it seems the only reason anything's moved from there is to move it to Post Hell. Seems like that forum is working, hey?
Simple reading of what is already offered here will answer the MAJORITY of the questions asked, but if folks already can't be troubled to do that, why would a CP forum be of any assistance to them when it already exists as the Main Forum? Perhaps the SUBTITLE of the Main Forum should be revised from:
"Building arcade controls, cabinets, console adapters, etc
Console adapters seem like they should be talked about in "Consoles", yes? Cabinets in "Project Announcements", yes? If folks are using the subtitle as the basis for their postings there, that may help to explain why no one can see that we DO have a CP forum - the Main Forum.
Gunstar Hero:
Does everyone try to read every post, every day? ???
I usually hit Main, Buy/Sell, Software, Everything Else and Project Announcements daily and skip anything I'm not really needing to use at the moment. If we added a CP forum, I probably wouldn't use it much.
I think the current layout is good, but you can add more forums without ruining it. Besides, it's not like people aren't going to put the wrong post in the wrong forum all the time anyways.
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: Gunstar Hero on December 28, 2004, 09:05:16 am ---Does everyone try to read every post, every day? ???
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*Looks both ways, raises his hand*
Well, I really can't say that. I don't go in Artwork but maybe once a week, and consoles less than that.
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