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[Pancho1188]

Mods,



Having noticed continuing repetition in thread topics, some of which have been discussed many times, I'm gona

re-suggest my previous suggestion. I think there should be a newbie FAQ section somewhere (possibly in the

Pherolibrary). All it would take is for people to copy and paste some current and past newbie questions and

responces, perhaps with links to good threads. I started doing this, and got as far as one question



Thoughts?

Cap'n,

(Not that I'm a moderator or anything...)

I think we do need to have some

sort of centralized system for important posts. My idea was to have a forum specifically for

hits/testimonials/products/whatever, while having one thread for each product. I see the 'posting rules' section,

so I know you could make a product forum and have a moderator or forum vet 'specializing' in that product post a

thread for every L-S product and then close the forum from posting new threads. That way, you could simply direct

people to the main thread if they have a question about a particular product. That might cut down on a lot of

'lazy' posts.

Another suggestion would be to centralize basic information such as "How much do I use?" and

"What's the best product for ______?" or whatever. Then, veterans who are tired of answering simple questions

could just post a link to that section for their reference. Coincidentally, I actually do this for a living

(research questions that have been asked before and provide links to the solutions).

Anyway, that's just my 2

cents. You'd never have to really write "do a search" if you could just copy and paste a link to general questions

and save yourself and others the trouble.

[CptKipling]

Maybe it should be, "there are

no stupid questions, only ones that have been discussed to death and are now boring".

Despite the frustration

being caused by laziness/point whoring, it is too crude a judgement to frown upon every rubbish thread,

simply because it could end up being bad for Bruce when we are unduely harsh to newbies. In my opinion, we should

make sure there is no excuse not to notice the newbie information, and make the forum very newbie friendly by trying

to cater as much as possible to the unimformed. I like Pancho's idea about having as much per product information

as possible, but perhaps such things should be in the pherolibrary. I have some pretty good information on a few of

the products already copy/pasted away, maybe we should do this for all of them and update the newbie material. Also,

whether it comes to anything or not, I'll start logging basic newbie questions.


Slightly off topic, I think

the current use of the rep system is way out of balance. Hardly anyone gives bad rep; it seems to be the case that

people give good rep in the hope of getting it returned. Case in point: all of the newbies with very high reps, some

of them with only a couple of posts! There are people who deserve good rep, but so many poeple have such high rep

it's a bit silly.