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03-28-2004, 04:13 PM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Montreal
Distribution: Gentoo/Debian
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New Sub-Forum in Newbie forum
I think there should be a sub-forum or two in the newbie section, like Newbie - Installation and stuff like that. Because I went there, and some get ignored very easily.
Maybe you could make them into all different things? I dunno. Maybe its just a dumb idea, but I might actually read more if it was a bit better organized in there. Anyhow, just my 2 cents.
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03-29-2004, 06:05 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Boise, ID
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 6,642
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It's a nice idea, but if certain posts get ignored, it may simply be due to the fact that either the people who do see the post don't happen to know how to solve the reported problem, or that the people who do know how to solve the problem don't happen to see the post. Regardless of how many forums or subforums there are, those 2 conditions will still exist though, so in the end I'm not sure that creating new forums will improve things.
In my view, the 2 best approaches towards minimizing the chances that a post gets ignored is to bump it after, say, at least 24 or 48 hours without getting a response, or better yet, to use LQ's Search function. Most common installation issues have already been extensively posted as well as solved, and it's only a matter of doing a little digging to find an existing post that covers the exact same issue, along with an appropriate solution. Like you, this is just my 2 cents -- J.W.
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03-30-2004, 09:57 AM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Montreal
Distribution: Gentoo/Debian
Posts: 365
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I know. Its not for me, I dont even use the newbie forum. The newbie forum has about 10 million threads per day, it is TOO easy for one to get lost even if you bump it.
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03-30-2004, 11:12 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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If you have a problem with a particular distro, you should post in there - a number of them have an installation sub-forum.
The Newbie forum is a place that new people can go and post their question - if it does need to go into a different forum, the mods will move it.
Jeremy doesn't really like creating new sub forums as that can 'clog' up the board and make it more complicated to navigate.
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03-30-2004, 11:57 AM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,630
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I wouldn't say I don't like creating sub-fourms, but I only consider creating them if I think there is sufficient demand for the forum to get used.
--jeremy
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03-30-2004, 12:19 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Phila, PA
Distribution: SuSE 9.0 / RH 9 / Slackware 9.1
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personally, I just check all the new posts across all forums... :/ I almost never look at which section / forum the posts are in.
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03-30-2004, 03:58 PM
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Location: Montreal
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Last I checked, when I first logged in, there were over 1000 new threads. Tell me, you have the time to go through all of them?
I go to the forums in which I know something, aka fedora and slack (well not really slack) and newbie. I do not go to the new threads, there are too many.
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03-30-2004, 05:23 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: slackware
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Quote:
Originally posted by Pauli
Last I checked, when I first logged in, there were over 1000 new threads. Tell me, you have the time to go through all of them?
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that all depends when you were last on here .. i know its been about 5 hours since this present post since i was here and there is only 257 new ones as opposed to your 1000, but of course i wouldn't look through all 257, and i think what was being referred to was when coming to the site, clicking the "view threads with 0 replies" ...
i know thats what i personally do, and then i check my personal replied to threads and see if anyone replied to what i said, and respond back when need be ...
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03-30-2004, 10:33 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Phila, PA
Distribution: SuSE 9.0 / RH 9 / Slackware 9.1
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I LIKE TO READ.
and yes, I scan all titles of new posts.
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03-31-2004, 04:31 PM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Montreal
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Posts: 365
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I have something called limited time. Plus I have much better things than reading LQ, such as reading Kant, Hobbes and other miscellanious wonders. LQ is nice, but it is not what you would call classic literature 
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04-01-2004, 03:19 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: New Delhi, India
Distribution: Fedora 7
Posts: 1,305
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Isn't the discussion getting off the track here?
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04-01-2004, 09:37 AM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Phila, PA
Distribution: SuSE 9.0 / RH 9 / Slackware 9.1
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--deleting--
not worth my energy.
Last edited by jsokko; 04-01-2004 at 09:55 AM.
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04-01-2004, 09:53 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,149
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Lets not let this get personal guys.
Regards.
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04-01-2004, 12:27 PM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Montreal
Distribution: Gentoo/Debian
Posts: 365
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Ummm. Personal? How so?
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04-01-2004, 12:29 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,149
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Quote:
Originally posted by Pauli
Ummm. Personal? How so?
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It was getting out of line between you and another member, lets just leave it at that please.
Regards.
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