Stickys:
Operating system help
Media help
Application help
Portables help
Where's programming in that?
And hardware, for that matter?
Spirit said:
Absolutely not necessary at all. I know this all sounds ironic with my previous moans, but I don't see the words "Tech Support" in the acronym "ADISC". I'm not saying that we shouldn't have a tech forum full-stop. I'm saying that we don't need a sub-forum as the existing forum already covers everything and is sufficient.
I just don't think that the sub-forum would get enough posts to be viable. If it did, it would certainly sound the death knell for the parent forum.
That's my bit.
Again, the VIP forum has very, very few posts, but it IS there. Because it has a point.
Also, perhaps it isn't a Tech Support forum, but on specialized ones, I can never find a good answer to my questions, because it's full of noobs and people who don't know anything about what I ask, so they say stuff like 're-install [application]', 'restart your computer', 'buy a new [computer part]' or whatever. At least I know there are geeky people who can help me here. A lot of people have good knowledge in computers and programming on ADISC, that's why we have so many help threads to begin with.
"It would certainly sound the death knell for the parent forum."?
Computers and Games. That's the name of that parent forum, and there are plenty of things that one could say about computers and games, excluding technical help.
People bragging about getting new hardware, people asking about good games or computer parts (that's not technical help if they know what the problem is and how to fix it), talk about specific games, programming languages, software, hardware, new technologies...
Mandi said:
It's good to have a whole bunch of forum topics to keep threads in a more specified area... but it gets to a point where too many forum topics is even more confusing then what we began with.
True, but the forum is already confusing, especially with the ranks and rights thing, VIP requirements, donor sub-ranks... That's MUCH more annoying than another sub-forum.