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StarDragon Guru
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Cool, good idea... |
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GNUtoo Veteran
Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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the problem is that the user need to be able to notice that someone has responded to his post... |
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tomk Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 7221 Location: Sat in front of my computer
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:07 am Post subject: |
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new_to_non_X86 wrote: | the problem is that the user need to be able to notice that someone has responded to his post... |
They can do that by enabling email notifications in their profile or by clicking the watch this topic link at the bottom of the page. _________________ Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip |
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GNUtoo Veteran
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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tomk wrote: | new_to_non_X86 wrote: | the problem is that the user need to be able to notice that someone has responded to his post... |
They can do that by enabling email notifications in their profile or by clicking the watch this topic link at the bottom of the page. |
i will enable this now... |
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GNUtoo Veteran
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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it's enabled and it's great!!! |
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lateralus__ Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 100 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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Great idea !
I'll try to do my best too _________________ There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true.
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GNUtoo Veteran
Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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yes it is
there are also ansewred post that doesn't have a the problem resolved |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54239 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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new_to_non_X86,
Click on view your posts to see all the threads you have contrubuted to recently. Its in the top right of the index page. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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GNUtoo Veteran
Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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i prefer mail |
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GNUtoo Veteran
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon wrote: | new_to_non_X86,
Click on view your posts to see all the threads you have contrubuted to recently. Its in the top right of the index page. |
i was thinking of:
i have a problem
->proposed solution
doesn't work
->proposed solution
doesn't work
->proposed solution
doesn't work
->proposed solution
doesn't work
and nothing else...the post is abandoned
there are such post...
by the way such initiative should be part of the QA project |
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Bones McCracker Veteran
Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1611 Location: U.S.A.
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:29 am Post subject: |
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If there was a way to indicate responses that were helpful.
If we gave double credit for providing the first helpful response.
Unanswered posts might be more likely to get answered. |
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Kulfaangaren! Apprentice
Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 176 Location: Borås, Sweden
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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Great initiative!
I'll try to join in the fun when I'm able.
// Fredrik |
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krinn Watchman
Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:38 am Post subject: |
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Well, i try to look at unanswered post many times, but i think most of them (not all, but most) of them are beyond answer.
1- the kind of too specific category, generally hardware related question, you don't have the hardware, so you better not answer it as "i have an xk3ztt board and i can't enable the red light under pci #3 blahblah"
2- the "answer in that post and you'll get in trouble" category as "can you help configuring my computer to work as a file printer/webserver/ftp/samba every dawn things that exist running?"
3- the "search the forum" category as "I can't emerge e2fsprogs because com_err...."
4- the "guess the answer please" category as "I have a video card in my computer (i'm not sure, but my brother told me i have one) and xorg freeze when starting"
5- the "unanswered post effect" category: not sure i could help the guy, i may need more info... but any post i will do to help him will of course remove his post from the unanswered list, so it might be better to really not answer him so he will stay in the list and get a chance to have someone answer him for real.
maybe some more categories exists i don't have in mind but
i avoid cat 1 if i don't have that hardware, (could be software, i try to avoid any kde post for example)
because they are so much to answer that a cat 2 will draw all my happiness,
cat 3 well, kinda the same as cat 2 for me, and i don't like to rtfm anyone but i do answer that sometimes
cat 4 i do answer but i always think 2 before, it could be a cat 2 hidden
and all of them are always cat 5
So, i really think a "how to post sticky note" would be more helpful then a "please take an unanswered post".
Even with one (is there one yet?) note like that we will still see posts that don't comply with it, but this might gives clues to people that don't know how to ask something, a way to ask it and so maximize chances to get a reply.
I mean how many times you see in networking someone saying "i can't connect to internet" "net.eth0 doesn't start"... and a text within it saying "when i boot i can't ping anything and i don't have internet, please help"
If a note exist saying "network card trouble: please post a text to explain problem + lscpi | grep Ether + cat /etc/conf.d/net + dmesg | grep eth + route output"... will gives enought informations to get a base to start with.
That's why i generally gives up answering unanswered posts, that same post will draw my attention after like 3-4 posts of people not as bore as me asking "can you output lspci | grep ether, dmesg..."
edit: i forget, a special note could also be "If no one is helping you, if you're lost and sad, try changing your title to [NeddySeagoon]+original title", you may get an answer because NeddySeagoon is never bore, got falcon eyes and a patience way beyong humans |
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honeymak Guru
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 537
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:36 am Post subject: |
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maybe the forum should introduce a "chop" mechanism
so post with nothing or else
then moderator pls "chop" it to answered or sth else
how this sounds?
_________________ hackers - make sth real
academics - read sth said to be real |
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fbcyborg Advocate
Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 3056 Location: ROMA
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