New Forum Idea [Archive] - Revision3 Forums

njshadow

12-23-2006, 11:16 PM

Any chance we can get a new forum entitled: "Tech Help" for those who have tech related questions? Because I just posted a Help question in the Windows section and it kind of stinks because there's usually not that many people in there. I would have posted it in general, but It probably would have been moved anyway. Does anybody agree with me on this? I think it would be a great help to the whole Revision3 community. Techies helping techies. :D

rabidbadger

12-24-2006, 12:30 AM

I don't see why not. Despite the fact that there are tons of other tech help specific forums on the web it would be nice to see one in this community. Having set up some forums in the past I know it is just a couple-o-clicks to make a new subject.

The only problem I see is that it would logically be put under the "computing" banner, where the Windows and Mac, etc, subsections are, and would be as little travelled as those are. Maybe under the "general" category it would get a little traffic, but it is unlikely that it would be put there.

samureye

12-24-2006, 02:35 AM

I don't see why not, I'll bring it up.

ryudo

12-24-2006, 02:40 AM

I like this idea because no one responds in windows and in GD it gets ignored/burried fast.

ariastar

12-24-2006, 02:43 AM

Aria concurs.

magunwarrior

12-24-2006, 02:44 AM

I agree this is a great idea.

tobey

12-24-2006, 03:18 AM

You've got my vote.

phatlip12

12-24-2006, 04:25 AM

ariastar

12-24-2006, 05:18 AM

I see no point in there being a tech support forum. If a person has a problem they should post the problem under the forum related to the OS they are using. It keeps mac/linux/windows problems separate. In short, we already have this forum. ;)

Problem is that because they are separated, people don't visit all of them and so many miss a post for which they could help. Perhaps combining these forums?

phatlip12

12-24-2006, 06:24 AM

Problem is that because they are separated, people don't visit all of them and so many miss a post for which they could help. Perhaps combining these forums?

I don't think thats the problem, its only 3 forums and they really don't get THAT much activity.

ArmpitOfDeath

12-24-2006, 09:27 AM

There are forums which are more tech-centric... and probably not a good idea to answer a question when it is "How do I get my illegally obtained copy of Windows to work?" and the mods don't jump on it like on other forums.

ariastar

12-24-2006, 05:33 PM

I don't think thats the problem, its only 3 forums and they really don't get THAT much activity.

The activity is spread out. I don't want to go checking three separate forums so usually check one or none. I'm sure others do the same. And there are some questions that don't relate to a specific platform, such as getting around a firewall at school, yet you're forced to pick one anyway and miss out on the knowledge of those who are reading another forum.

phatlip12

12-24-2006, 06:20 PM

The activity is spread out. I don't want to go checking three separate forums so usually check one or none. I'm sure others do the same. And there are some questions that don't relate to a specific platform, such as getting around a firewall at school, yet you're forced to pick one anyway and miss out on the knowledge of those who are reading another forum.

I don't see that as being reason enough to put them all together though. Its a matter of clicking 3 buttons to get to all of the "platform forums". We could always add ANOTHER forum such as a programming board.

Ps. The firewall thread could easily go in the broken forum

alexsk8ca

12-24-2006, 06:47 PM

I really like the idea of a help section or combining the OSes. Right now they aren't very busy, but I think if they were made one section that people would check back more and there would be more posts and answers would be answered faster.

ariastar

12-24-2006, 07:26 PM

I don't see that as being reason enough to put them all together though. Its a matter of clicking 3 buttons to get to all of the "platform forums". We could always add ANOTHER forum such as a programming board.

Ps. The firewall thread could easily go in the broken forum

It may be a matter of three buttons, but people aren't doing it.

phatlip12

12-24-2006, 08:57 PM

It may be a matter of three buttons, but people aren't doing it.

Thats not the reason why though. Reasons why include:

People posting such topics in the Geekdrome boards and complaining once a mod moves it to one of the tech boards. People need to be willing to leave one forum that they frequent all the time and go to other boards. It doesn't matter if we call it Tech Support or "I love food", if people want to stick to only certain boards then NOTHING will work.

Lack of interest in those topics (after all, this isn't a tech site so a majority of posts are for the shows). The computing section is just a little bonus.

These boards get posts in them all the time and peoples questions get answered. Its not like they are deserted all together. Again, I don't see the problem

klitzy

12-24-2006, 09:12 PM

Thats not the reason why though. Reasons why include:

People posting such topics in the Geekdrome boards and complaining once a mod moves it to one of the tech boards. People need to be willing to leave one forum that they frequent all the time and go to other boards. It doesn't matter if we call it Tech Support or "I love food", if people want to stick to only certain boards then NOTHING will work.

Lack of interest in those topics (after all, this isn't a tech site so a majority of posts are for the shows). The computing section is just a little bonus.

These boards get posts in them all the time and peoples questions get answered. Its not like they are deserted all together. Again, I don't see the problem

You, my friend, are correct....

Of course....I still think that we need a SPAM section for projects, ideas, people looking for peoples help, links, other podcasts....etc

Oh well....

phatlip12

12-24-2006, 09:27 PM

You, my friend, are correct....

Of course....I still think that we need a SPAM section for projects, ideas, people looking for peoples help, links, other podcasts....etc

Oh well....

We had this on Scopetech a while ago. We called it the "Buy My Bikes Forum". We could limit it to real users (no spambots) and could even possibly require users post X amounts to prevent people from posting there once and never again.

ryudo

12-24-2006, 10:09 PM

This MB is technically based after a tech network and dividing them ..Mac...Linux ...windows gives off sepration and less interest.

Think of it like marketing,despite how easy it is to go from one forum to another people are sold by up front accessibility,so a "Tech forum" tells the human phsycy "hey I will post my question or idea here" no worries about if some topics should go in windows or mac so to speak as the topic might be a questoin about both..and in General discussion it might get moved and def will be buried fast.

The more simple something looks the easier it is for anyone and more people will be interested.

A message board is in a sense trying to sell to people to post at the forums...people even smart folk are always sold more on how simple/aesthetically pleasing something is before function.

klitzy

12-25-2006, 02:40 AM

casework

12-25-2006, 04:53 AM

We had this on Scopetech a while ago. We called it the "Buy My Bikes Forum". We could limit it to real users (no spambots) and could even possibly require users post X amounts to prevent people from posting there once and never again.

There could even just be a "regulars" forum, where people with X amount of posts, or have been here for X amount of months/years have the freedom to discuss ANYTHING(within the rules, of course) and also allow "spam" topics. Access could also be automatically granted to subscribers - which actually also goes with some of my ideas are far as spicing up the whole membership thing goes.