A crazy thought

dylix · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 9:11 am Post subject: A crazy thought

I'm sure everyone that reads the forums often, are sick of people always posting about topic that have gone over a million times before hand. So this thought came into my mind. Please bear in mind its 6am Sunday Morning.

Perhaps the first page you go to when you type in https://forums.gentoo.org should not contain, any threadlists, instead only the option to search the forums. This way it would cut down on duplicate posts.

Perhaps your saying, hmm ok, but what about the people that go here all the time? They don't want to click on a link that goes to the thread lists everytime. This is very true, but, all the people that come to forums.gentoo.org more than likely has it bookmarked. Well, simple, bookmark the page with something to this effect. https://forums.gentoo.org/?skip or whatever it maybe.

Or maybe just might do the trick if used properly

haha

Ari Rahikkala · Guru Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 370 Location: Finland

That idea doesn't really fit in to the Gentoo community... I mean, we're supposed to be friendly to newbies... then again, I haven't spent a lot of time answering questions in the support forums so I can't tell if that sort of thing would actually be so useful it would warrant the bad attitude...
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fdavid · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 9:48 am Post subject:

The duplicated topics and posts disturb me as well, but i wouldn't expect too much of that kind of solution. People won't stop posting already discussed topics, but will complain about the change...in duplicated threads.

Gentoo forums provide great support and it shouldn't be messed up. So i would be glad as well, wehen people would use the forums with more care, but i'm sceptic of the successfulness of such kind of changes. Nonetheless i would be glad, because i always start at the search page.

stustill · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 10:13 am Post subject:

Its fine as it is, it would be irritating to have to navigate through one more page everytime you come to the forums, and besides, there is already a Quick Search thingy-me-bob at the top of the page!

Stu

dmitchell · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject:

This may be a little far-fetched, but bear with me. What if, upon clicking the "submit" button, the server autmatically parsed your message and performed a search based on the important words in the message. You would then be directed to a page with links to all of the search results and a couple of buttons:

1. "Nevermind, I found my answer (Canel Post)", and
2. "Those threads didn't help (Continue with Post)".

puggy · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:10 am Post subject:

Everyone would just bookmark the forum list page like I suspect a lot of people do already. Theres little point in this. Maybe for the first 50 posts you make you could have a question saying..."Are you sure you've searched for the answer?" :-D

Hehe, this would probably just lead to the first 50 posts by each user saying things like..."I can't wait to get rid of that fucking confirmatino message!".
This thread should be in gentoo forums feedback.

Puggy
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puggy · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:20 am Post subject:

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

Moved from Gentoo Chat.
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