Forum Suggestion

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Forum Suggestion

Evening fellow DJTTers

I have noticed recently a large number of beginners joining the forum, all asking similiar questions. Barely a day goes by without hearing [QUOTE]What conroller should I get?[/QUOTE] etc etc.

Now I understand that this a an important part of the buying process, is researching your options, getting opinions etc. These people asking questions are more than welcome to ask, and are also more than welocome of the forums.

However, as almost all the questions seem to be of the same generic type, I proprose that the Mods/Admins set up a new section of the forum for beginners. Such a division would be beficial to all members, as the less experienced people would be able to easily navigate their way to the beginners section and look at the problems their fellow DJs/Producers are having, instead of having to dig though a mountain of old posts, as unfortunatly, the search button seems to be broken.

So, in doing this, this would free the General Discussion section up for it’s intended purpose - General Discussion.

So, what is everybody’s opion on this?

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i asked this last year and it did not get done.

its like we have an s4 section now but still most of s4 questions end up in here

but i have always said a help section would be great like on ableton.com

inb4 s4 or vci

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It might lead to people ignoring the n00b posts and them not getting the answers they need though.

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Keep it as is. If there was a beginners section, a lot of more experienced people wouldn’t bother checking it out. Which would lower the amount of helpful responses. IMO it’s easy to just skip over threads entitled “which blah blah should I get?” if you aren’t interested in helping out someone new.

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the problem is tho “noobs” dont use the search forum
and i don’t think its fair to the members who have been here longer having to go looking for threads when its just common sense to search before asking.

Don’t get me wrong i am always happy to help and no matter how many times the same question comes up i will always help,its just 90% of the time its been asked before and would take OP less time to look for it than to wait for an answer.

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I have no doubt creating a noob section will lead to just a few of us being the only ones to answer questions. Plus they would still post in general regardless of what sections were available.

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so true.

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I think what this site needs is a wiki that only registered forum users can update (perhaps users with a certain post count or join date?).

Think about it - there are a BUNCH of useful tutorials, guides, faq’s on this site.. but none of it is in a format that is easy to edit, update and search.

edit: here’s how to do it:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=112973
http://www.nuhit.com/products/vbwiki.html

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Fair enough. This was just an idea, and it’s good to see everyone putting in their two cents on the issue.

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I’m totally with you on that one. The problem with it was always who gets rights to edit, but since you can base it on post count that makes a lot of sense. A troll filter if you will.

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any useful threads could be tagged with ‘wiki’ so that it’d be easy to find then copy/pasta the useful threads into the wiki…

come on site admins - you knows it makes sense!

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PM tekki and see what he says. He’s gna be bcak on the forums for realz in about 2 weeks but you’re more likely to get a response to a PM.

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Or people could just start tagging their own threads with relevant tags :slight_smile:

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Done for this thread, as an example.

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haha just watching futurama now :slight_smile:

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people do that already though :slight_smile:

I dunno about you, but I find a wiki easier to keep updated/search than posts on a forum. Tagging posts on the forum with ‘wiki’ would be a good way for people to nominate certain threads to be ‘uploaded’ to the wiki.

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ahh the 6 week cycle of everyone getting sick of silly beginner questions :slight_smile:

i’ve always thought about having a wiki as a good idea.

i’ve also thought the best idea would to make anyone asking a question look through the faq, and then make search compulsory before starting a new topic (if it was possible to setup via the backend’s forum preferences)

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i think leave it as it is, what if a noob has encountered a problem no-one has listed on the sight then he’ll never get it fixed cause he’ll most likely give up and loose interest.

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Just answer hey noob check out sidetrakds signature :smiley:
seriously though a wiki would be good!Maybe a beginners e-book.No matter what you do. people can be lazy and want instant answers.I read almost every blog post I could find and half the forum before I ever posted at all.