New Forum Suggestion

As someone in LQ appears to keep renewing www.windowsquestions.org
dec@genius:~$ nslookup www.linuxquestions.org
Server: 208.67.222.222
Address: 208.67.222.222#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.linuxquestions.org
Address: 75.126.162.205
dec@genius:~$ nslookup www.windowsquestions.org
Server: 208.67.222.222
Address: 208.67.222.222#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.windowsquestions.org
Address: 75.126.162.205

Why not set up a windows forum, which
1. Would empower moderators to kick windows questions into it from other forums
2. Would leave windows users twisting in the wind and swapping guesses with each other.
3. Would be a useful testing ground for viruses, trojans, exploits, malware, rootkits & other hacks.
4. Might actually generate a knowledge base and it's own revenue in time. It might actually pay for having the domain registered.
5 Might even spawn sub-fora for the multiplicity of shades of the disease.

I'd think a real windows forum would be wholly redundant given the countless number of forums for windows there already are. And we don't want yo be in the business of deliberatly trying to mock windows users. Other than the domain name...

And point 3... wtf? You think we should deliberately trick people in to installing trojans? I really hope this is a joke.

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie And point 3... wtf? You think we should deliberately trick people in to installing trojans? I really hope this is a joke.

It certainly was. What on earth, then, do you guys want with www.windowsquestions.org?

hilarious.

Most long-term members of this forum either won't need to ask Windows questions very often, in which case putting them in General is I believe tolerated, or will also be long-term members of a Windows forum where they can ask them. Therefore, a Windows Questions forum would only really cater to newbies to LQ - and if they're new to here, they can just as well be new to somewhere else.

I was thinking that maybe windowsquestions.org should not be pointing to linuxquestions.org ... but maybe Jeremy has a reason for this ?

WQ.org was originally purchased (IIRC) because we were joking around about doing it and Jeremy used to be more active in the General forum. Originally, it pointed to the General forum. It's worth hanging onto, from a business point of view, simply because the name is similar enough to LQ to make people think that a forum like WQ is part of Jeremy's empire. If a reputable forum had the name it wouldn't be a huge issue, but there is no guarantee of that.

Originally Posted by XavierP Originally, it pointed to the General forum.

I see, well that made more sense ... to me at least.

Originally, it pointed to the General forum.

That is starting to make sense I suppose I asked because I had windows issues recently. I have a college course where they are throwing up new software package after new software package, without enough pcs to go around. I was trying to revive the windows copy I actually own, in order to duplicate stuff here.

Why not point it back at General, and remove the ''Linux' from it?

Moved to LQ S&F.

Originally Posted by XavierP Moved to LQ S&F.

Even though it's a (failed) joke thread?

It didn't sound like a joke to me ...

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H It didn't sound like a joke to me ...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...3/#post4253825

Near enough to a real question to count.

Well, ok #3 was a joke.