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| Jakobud:
Goodness...I didn't mean to open such a can of worms here. I was merily thinking outloud that perhaps it's not as easy to find what you want on the website as it might seem. For newbies anyways. There are TONS of cool suggestions/ideas/solutions for things that people have come up with that are in posts on the message board but they don't exist in any fashion on the rest of the website. |
| Luxury:
--- Quote from: eightbit on February 09, 2003, 02:27:10 pm ---How would you propose a rating system? You can't rate things like joysticks. There are several reviews or links to reviews of sticks and thats all you can do is review them and report. An example is many feel the supers are the best stick because of the round action, but others argue the competitons are better because you can feel the corners. Then theres the $40 p360's, its not a fair comparison to a $10 stick. Most things are that way. If someone tells you something is the best its only there opinion. Even if you could come up with a rating system its still subjective. --- End quote --- your right..and i thought about this after i posted that. a rating system is too arbirtrary. it all comes down to opinions about what you have done. wrong words for me to say. I do think however that more comparisons would be very helpful. a breakdown of what each piece of hardware/software/methodology by the pros and cons. ive seen the ones like oscars arcade monitor/pc monitor/tv comparisons and i find them extremely useful. now maybe some comparisons as to what features each front-end has, what they are missing, or the pros and cons of using mame/mame32/advancemame (not for me - for others, honest!) tables and charts are good! :D |
| eightbit:
--- Quote from: Luxury on February 10, 2003, 01:09:23 am ---I do think however that more comparisons would be very helpful. a breakdown of what each piece of hardware/software/methodology by the pros and cons. ive seen the ones like oscars arcade monitor/pc monitor/tv comparisons and i find them extremely useful. now maybe some comparisons as to what features each front-end has, what they are missing, or the pros and cons of using mame/mame32/advancemame (not for me - for others, honest!) tables and charts are good! :D --- End quote --- As Saint mentioned theres only so much time to do things. This site is free and as such the people that run it have real jobs and real familys that they must attend to. If you want to write up some reviews I'm sure Saint will be happy to add them to his list of things to publish and will get to it eventually. Another option would be for you to host it yourself and then Saint could link to it if he wanted to he wouldn't have to edit it or update it. Another advantage to doing it that way is that it would be available as soon as you posted it. I've started doing this with my site. I know its not easy for people to find it like it would be if it was indexed here but at least its there. |
| planetjay:
I don't have a real job. But I AM looking. :P |
| Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: Jakobud on February 09, 2003, 05:27:26 am ---I'm not sure if people are just not searching though the BYOAC site for help or what. It seems like for the past month or so every few days I see questions about "DOS vs Windows?" or "What is the best Frontend" or "Do you use Daphne?" etc etc etc.....maybe it's just too difficult to find what you want on the site. --- End quote --- You are giving people the benefit of the doubt. I agree with the others in that newbs are just too lazy to check first. I was b*tching about this very same subject just a few weeks ago. regarding the other ponts brought up.... If people don't post the same things over and over site traffic would indeed go down, which is a good thing (bandwidth ain't free ya know). It wouldn't halt the board completely though. There is atleast 1 valid, totally original post made a week, unfortunately it's buried under 60 some odd posts of crap. You'll notice that I rarely post on the main board anymore and that's why. I Literally can't find the new topics because there is so much junk to wade through. I retreated to the software board and now it's starting to get bad over there too. Newbs, users, ect... A small suggestion towards when to post. First do the following..... Check the faq Check the faq Check the faq Search the Archives and serach the contents themselves, not the titles (titles rarely match the content around here) Ask one of the guys via priavte message. Go into the chatroom at night and ask your quesiton there. Check the faq one more time. If you still can't find an answer then post your question. The site ahs become a victim of it's success. We need to be much more cautious about what we post to keep things tidy and for the love of god no more..... "which fe is the best?", "should i get an arcade monitor or tv?", or "insert lightgun question here" :) |
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