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  • Member since
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  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Descriptions of forums
Posted by Don Stauffer on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 9:28 AM

We still see a lot of posting in inappropriate forums due to people not understanding the intended subject matter for each forum.  While the forum headers are pretty good in specifying the topics, I think further work in defining them might reduce this problem.  Since we see so much of this problem I think the effort to more clearly define the forums would be well spent.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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  • From: Yuma, AZ
Posted by Ripcord on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:35 AM

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Mike

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Posted by Phil_H on Thursday, November 29, 2012 12:09 AM

I think the Community Assistance (aka Forum Help) forum header confuses many people, especially newcomers to the forum.

The regulars know that it is a forum for asking questions about forum usage/issues, but for the newcomer, it sounds like just the place to ask the forum members for help.

As a result, that particular forum is flooded with general modelling questions - "where do I get...", "How do I..." etc etc.

 

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  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:07 AM

Phil_H

I think the Community Assistance (aka Forum Help) forum header confuses many people, especially newcomers to the forum.

The regulars know that it is a forum for asking questions about forum usage/issues, but for the newcomer, it sounds like just the place to ask the forum members for help.

As a result, that particular forum is flooded with general modelling questions - "where do I get...", "How do I..." etc etc.

 

Yep, that is my point.  I think if the "mission statement" of the forum was expanded a bit, maybe we'd have fewer of those posts.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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