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david p.
Time for this to come back and hang around on the front page for a while.
New members, please make it easy for people to help you and for your thread subjects to be located by search in the future to help others.
Describe your problem in the thread title...make it meaningful, not 'oh pooh' or something similar.
david p.
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I plead guilty to not putting discriptive thread titles...
Next time I will describe any thread titles that I post or reply.
I think this really helps others to save time and money!!
Cool idea... I support this!!
limubear
Haha... I guess I've been a criminal too.
:D
Venio
ok ok ive done a couple of those "non discriptive titles" but i think i have done that because half the time i dont really know what my problem is..Im not trying to make an excuse but im still new to swish and i really have no idea where i go wrong with my problems. Maybe its just me though. So yea il try to be a little more discriptive sorry for the inconvience
Jigga
When I visit the JavaScript forum (which is set up much like this forum) the very first thread is about the basic rules for posting, including a prompt for good thread titles.
Is there a way you could have a post (like this one) remain the very first post in the forum at all times... perhaps with the tile READ THIS BEFORE POSTING?
This thread keeps disappearing, only to be ressurected when 30 new poorly titled posts have appeared on the boards.
Just a thought.
Robert
the "sticky thread" topic has been discussed quite often. some day all mods will sit down at a round table and work something out :)Quote:
Originally posted by artgeek99
When I visit the JavaScript forum (which is set up much like this forum) the very first thread is about the basic rules for posting, including a prompt for good thread titles.
Is there a way you could have a post (like this one) remain the very first post in the forum at all times... perhaps with the tile READ THIS BEFORE POSTING?
This thread keeps disappearing, only to be ressurected when 30 new poorly titled posts have appeared on the boards.
Just a thought.
Robert
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Hope it's soon...
Another day with various "Help Me" posts.
If you want someone to help you, be descriptive on your titles. Don't just post a title that says "Help Me". Say what you need help with!
I am an admin at Trillian's forums. We have around 24,000 members and this was happening a lot. We started adding tags on their posts so that it was easier to see what the post was about.
A post with a title like Need Help was changed to Need Help -> Unable to login to ICQ <-.
The -> and <- lets people know what a mod has been there. The extra info makes it a LOT easier to search the forums because you can search the title of the post only (you have to add the space between the -> and the content or the search doesn't pick it up for some reason).
Slowly but surely people started taking our lead and being more descriptive. :)
As mentioned earlier in the thread the sticky didn't help before.
This thread itself has done more to curb non descript titles then the sticky ever did.
I'm reluctant to go thru every thread and edit the titles.
as many of the moderators are.
This forum (Swish Help) is oftimes the first introduction to a forum at all for many of our members. It was for me.
It's a huge leap for some. Learning the in's and out's of posting while learning about swf animation. Most first timers of early on members don't begin reading other topics untill they have had a response to thier own thread. Regardless of where it sits. I've found that educating members in a reply as well as having this thread surface a more effective means of causing a positive change. Then putting a sticky up and hoping that someone will read it.
As many know I document a great deal of my work elsewhere, and reference to some of it in my replies. As Brian and others do. The documentation gets more visits after posting then it does alone.
In the Mac forum here. There is a very good thread. It's constantly referenced to in replies to mac related issues.
Why is it constantly referenced? Because nobody reads it untill they are told to do so in a reply. It's the sticky.
Good content totally ignored.
Heck I went 3 months in this very forum before reading the sticky named Please Read First.
Frets
Frets made tons of good points here... i'll probably start editing titles and placing links to this thread at the very top of my replies.
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to the top again for those who haven't read it yet.
dp
this is a cut and paste from a previous page, nothing new to say, just keeping on reminding people to help us to help you and future others like you.
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just to bring this back to the top.
Titles like- 'swish problem' or 'help me' don't tell people if your problem is one they can actually help with, nor do they help when people are searching the forum to see if similar problems have already been solved.
If your 'swish problem' is in reality - 'I can't see the report when I use the test function'. Then put 'Problem with Test function' as the thread title.
It's common sense really.
Then when some else searches for 'test function', they will easily find the thread with it's responses. They have no chance at all of finding it if it is called 'swish problem'
please just think about describing your problem in the title.
thanks,
david p
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dp
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