Please post in the correct forum!!!

klieber · Last edited by klieber on Sat Jun 08, 2002 11:27 pm; edited 1 time in total

Folks --

Please make sure to post your issue in the correct forum. Over the last few days, the number of posts to All Things Gentoo that really should have been posted somewhere else has increased dramatically.

Desktop Environments is for anything and everything GUI-related.
Hardware is for anything and everything hardware-related
Networking & Security is for anything and everything related to networking, including network-related server daemons, such as Apache, Samba, NFS, etc.
Gentoo Suggestions is for ebuild requests, discussions on making portage better, etc.

At least 40% of the posts in All Things Gentoo instead should be posted to one of those four forums.

The more organized we can keep the forums, the easier it is for people to find the answers to their questions. Before posting a question, please ensure you're posting to the most appropriate forum for your topic.

Thanks.

--kurt
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Sivar · Apprentice Joined: 25 May 2002 Posts: 266 Location: USA

It does say, "Running Gentoo? Post here." for "All things Gentoo"
You may want to change that to something like "Gentoo-related posts that do not fit will in other forums"
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klieber · Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 12:34 am Post subject: Re: Forum title

Utoxin · Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 12:36 am Post subject:

I think there's two main reasons people post here instead of where they 'should'.

1. People are lazy. This is a Law of Nature. They don't want to bother to figure out where the post should go. I myself have been guilty of this.

2. This forum gets the most traffic. (See #1) Because of this, posts here are more likely to get a response, because more people will see the post.

Sivar · Apprentice Joined: 25 May 2002 Posts: 266 Location: USA

pavera · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 84

I argree with Utoxim, I have posted things in Networks and Security that have very simple answer that I simply didn't know, but many people do, and it takes 4-5 hours to get an answer, whereas in All Things Gentoo, it takes about 2 minutes. Furthermore, I recently had a post about CD-R software moved from all things gentoo to desktop environments, and most of the replies/thread had to do with command line tools, which I hardly charactarize as "X or anything that runs on it". And in fact the solution to the problem was with those command line tools, so the solution had nothing to do with Desktop Environments... If you don't want a catch-all, then don't have a catch-all, but don't blame people for using it if its there!

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20476

Could the forum be moved down in the list so it wasn't one of the first things seen? Then name it, 'If it doesn't fit above, and is Gentoo related, post here.'

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kraylus · l33t Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 648 Location: ft.worth.tx

how's about we instruct all the regulars to not respond to posts that dont belong? it's kinda mean but eventually people might stop.

then again gentoo's getting kinda popular and has newcomers every day i'm sure... i dunno.....

ryan
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gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

You can't get a response in other foums. If i need an answer i post here or in Desktop Environments. I know we have these other forums, but If they aren't checked, why bother.

tomte · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 122

people like me scan all forums,
not for very much longer if the bad habit of OT-Posting
continues.
maybe I'm to old fashioned, but I see on topic posts as an act of politness, and I'm getting mad on all these newbie posts cluttering the other forums.
forums-search and google search is the least I expect before a "
I have a problem, please help" post without any vital information.

I'll leave this forum in the next few weeks if the behaviour doesn't change significantly.

regards,
tom

klieber · Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 11:27 pm Post subject:

Well, this post did no good whatsoever in reducing the amount of crap in ATG. So, this is the next step.

To those folks who suggested posting in ATG because that has the most traffic or elicits the quickest response; that is not a good excuse to post items in the wrong forum. The only reason ATG has the most traffic is because people refuse to post in the right forum to begin with. It's very much a chicken-and-egg problem -- the other forums will not get more traffic until people start posting there more. However, people won't start posting there more until it gets more traffic.

Anyway, with the new forum policy, we're forcing the issue. I'm locking and un-sticking this thread.

--kurt
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