Re: Forum too big?
I have gone back and added SOLVED to the posts I received no reply to, as I have at this stage figured out the answers from posts on other sites, and I don't want to waste the time of people doing good work reviewing unanswered posts. It is nice to share the solutions anyway, in case somebody looks them up.
As far as I can tell they were all in the correct sub-forum, but I see one of the moderators saw fit to move this post to "Forum Feedback and Help", so perhaps my judgement is not always correct.
I appreciate the wiki for what it is best for, (documenting procedures to solve common problems), and Goggle for its better search indexing, but I still feel there is an issue with the shear number of posts swamping out posts that do not have easily documented solutions and may not be easy to answer. I believe that 15 to 30 views of a post on a forum this big will not be enough for such a problem, and then user is left waiting and hoping for people like LaRoza to turn up. Bumping posts just makes the problem worse, flooding the forum with even more messages.
So, in the absence of more specialised forums, best of luck to the Unanswered Posts Team.
Garvan
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