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Postby wayno » Tue 28 Aug, 2012 6:45 am

I"ve noticed a few people who have just signed up asking generic questions and often broad ranging ones that have been answered many times before in the forum, instead of searching the forum they post their question first.
I wondered if making the message about searching previous forums could be made more prominent especially to people joining up to avoid a lot of duplication of effort.
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Re: more prominent message to search previous posts

Postby ILUVSWTAS » Tue 28 Aug, 2012 7:18 am

Pushing for a mod job Wayno?? :wink:

If you can stop everyone (not just new members) asking the same old questions over and over, you deserve it.


Maybe the search box needs to be made bigger?? :lol:
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Re: more prominent message to search previous posts

Postby wayno » Tue 28 Aug, 2012 7:24 am

he he, and make teh "new topic" button damned hard to find as well
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Re: more prominent message to search previous posts

Postby Son of a Beach » Thu 30 Aug, 2012 10:05 am

There's no doubt that it's a problem. I tend to think that no amount of education is likely to get such people to change their ways, but we should see if there's something we can do to make it clearer to people that they should search first.

There certainly are a lot of duplicate topics.
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Re: more prominent message to search previous posts

Postby matagi » Thu 30 Aug, 2012 6:47 pm

I think making the search box a little more prominent would be helpful.
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Re: more prominent message to search previous posts

Postby stepbystep » Fri 31 Aug, 2012 7:32 am

wayno wrote:he he, and make teh "new topic" button damned hard to find as well


Tend to agree Wayno but I'd like to see you create a topic perhaps call it 'industry news' or some such and merge the dozens of topics you create about Rab's latest membrane, industry shows etc etc. they all get lost in the ether and are difficult to find.
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Re: more prominent message to search previous posts

Postby wayno » Fri 31 Aug, 2012 12:09 pm

yeah we only have the eqiupment category to hang that on
and a lot of the equipments posts are at present people asking questions about what gear to get. which of course is different from gear news and reviews, i have a facebook page for that as well.
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Re: more prominent message to search previous posts

Postby stepbystep » Fri 31 Aug, 2012 1:07 pm

wayno wrote:yeah we only have the eqiupment category to hang that on
and a lot of the equipments posts are at present people asking questions about what gear to get. which of course is different from gear news and reviews, i have a facebook page for that as well.


Yep, my point is you could collect them in one topic in equipment.
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Re: more prominent message to search previous posts

Postby ollster » Fri 31 Aug, 2012 3:52 pm

Or have a buying advice sub-forum...
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