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Old 07-23-2008, 06:22 AM   #1
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How about "Linux Multimedia Creation" topic?


For users of Blender, Flash for Linux, Rosegarden etc...?
 
Old 07-23-2008, 10:52 AM   #2
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You just described the Software forum here..
 
Old 07-24-2008, 05:00 AM   #3
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no a separate one specif. for multimedia
 
Old 07-24-2008, 09:39 AM   #4
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no a separate one specif. for multimedia
Why? The more forums you have the more confusion. We could create a plethora of sub forums and it's only going to cause more confusion of where you should post, make it harder to navigate for some users, etc. Simplicity works best.
 
Old 07-25-2008, 07:47 PM   #5
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W/ all due respect, balance is needed; & too few sub-fora can be as bad as too many. Consider the extreme: What if there were only 10 categories allowed, it would be much simpler to put threads in the right categories; but how much more difficult would it be find things in those simplified categories.

What I wonder is if there is a mathematics of filing. One w/ real algorithms that quantify how many categories & sub-categories are ideal for a given information space, & especially that can definitively indicate when a given subject should be moved into its own sub-category, i.e. forum.

Jeremy is fairly conservative about creating new fora, which is way better than being too liberal. But, again w/ all due respect, my mathematician's gut says that in some cases LQ is too conservative. I can give an example, but I can offer no hard proof that my ideas are right. Nor do I have any way figure out what the right guidelines would be for when to split a topic off.

Samba is my example/pet peeve. I suspect that roughly 10% of the threads in the "Linux - Networking" forum are about Samba. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out any easy & reliable way to measure what that %-age really is. In any case I would subscribe to a Samba forum, but for me there is too much "chaff" to warrant subscribing to the "Linux - Networking" forum. This means I see very few questions Samba & of course I can't respond to what I don't see. Now, I don't know so much about Samba that this affects the quality of LQ, but what if I were an expert? Consider an extreme & unlikely case: what if Andrew Tridgell were an LQ-er & would subscribe only to a Samba forum, but not one on Networking in general? I know, I know, very unlikely, but think about making it easy for a busy expert to share his/her knowledge.
 
Old 07-26-2008, 04:31 AM   #6
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Jeremy has thought about this! There are very few threads that are specifically about multimedia creation, most are really Linux-Software. BUT!! Tagging allows you to post in one forum but let everyone know that it may not be specific to that forum. So tagging a thread with "multimedia creation" or whatever allows for specifics.
 
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no one tags.
 
Old 07-26-2008, 06:59 AM   #8
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no one tags.
Agreed, and the point of tags isn't all that clear either.
 
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Bottom of every single post reads:
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Tag This Post No tags yet, please tag this post - what is this?
That link takes you to a very short explanation of tagging. Basically, it's to add extra info to your post title/location. So you could put a thread in Software called "Creating 3D Movies in Linux" and then tag it "Blender". You could also use it when you think your post belongs in two forums, so a post could go in Ubuntu and be tagged "wireless card, broadcom, bw-cutter".

Use the tags in a similar way that you would use tags on a blog (for the bloggers out there).
 
Old 07-26-2008, 07:35 AM   #10
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Xavier, the basic use is clear, and I tag my blog (mainly for my own use), but it's unclear to me how they add anything outside of searching (which is not the strong point of the forum package in any case)
 
Old 07-26-2008, 08:27 AM   #11
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They are a way to allow people to provide extra information. What is it about the search that you find lacking?
 
Old 07-26-2008, 08:32 AM   #12
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Jeremy is fairly conservative about creating new fora, which is way better than being too liberal. But, again w/ all due respect, my mathematician's gut says that in some cases LQ is too conservative. I can give an example, but I can offer no hard proof that my ideas are right. Nor do I have any way figure out what the right guidelines would be for when to split a topic off.
I think Jeremy is on the right track on keeping the number of sub-forums very low and I'll use my pet project, wireless, as the example. We do have a Wireless subforum, but every single day there are questions about wireless in Newbie, Software, Hardware, Laptop and Handhelds, Networking and probably in almost every one of the Distribution subforums. I would even wager that the Wireless subforum has a minority of the questions about wireless that happen here every day.

I like the idea of tags, but I think that there needs to be a bit more effort in how to make them useful. It might be interesting to allow people to make their own "forums" by subscribing to a tag, or set of tags. Sort of like the Zero Reply Threads idea, only user customizable. The biggest problem I can think of with this approach would be that it might make a hash out of the existing organization by making it even more confusing to decide where to post things.
 
Old 07-26-2008, 08:47 AM   #13
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A bit off thread here, but for example, I just ran a search for "dual boot windows" and the threads that come up are:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...l+boot+windows
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...l+boot+windows
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...l+boot+windows
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...l+boot+windows

and so on (these are the links in order that they appeared). None would help anyone trying to set up a dual boot system. I also recall (but could be wrong), that if I choose to search something less common, I get multiple references to the same thread.

Rgds

BM

Edit - in response to Xavier's question

Last edited by billymayday; 07-26-2008 at 08:49 AM.
 
Old 07-26-2008, 10:18 AM   #14
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Hangdog42, some of the features you'd like to see out of tagging here at LQ are actually on our roadmap. Stay tuned.

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