Frequently Asked Questions Sticky Topic

[ThePhoenixEffect]

I thought it might be a good idea to create a FAQ sticky topic for each board that needs it.  Besides helping new people, it would help some of the older members find the stuff they need to refer to that they remember reading but cannot find anymore.

It would probably be really too long especially for the bigger boards like the Student's Corner to do it the "normal way".  Putting a question and answer.  It would probably be most effective if we just listed links to the topic already being discussed or even other websites that have that information.

[nilsjohan]

Not a bad idea at all!
I see you have already started at the performance board so let's give it a try.

If anyone then would like to add links to topics that you find really useful, do it by replying to that topic and I could later put them all together in something like a "Piano Forum Gold" list somewhere at the site.

How about renaming those sticky topics to "Most useful topics" or something instead or FAQ?

Johan

[faulty_damper]

It sounds like an idea that would be helpful.  But it probably wouldn't work the way it was intended.  This same idea was tried out on a different forum.  It even had a forum with the threads that members thought were helpful threads on certain topics.  However, that forum became useless as virtually no one looked at it.  It pretty much sat there wasting bandwidth.  One of the reasons no one clicked it in my opinion was this:  it was not dynamic.  No one replied in those threads as the question in the thread was already answered.  And since people check the forums because people reply to active threads, and this forum was the exception, no one bothered to click.  It was soon taken down within two months.  The idea was canned.

It sounded like a great idea.  But no one used it.

[amanfang]

I wouldn't mind the sticky topics for reference.  

[ThePhoenixEffect]

It would probably be more useful if there was one sticky topic for each board that needs it rather than one huge list.  

This wouldn't only just be for newbies, but regular members.  There have been dozens of times I'd wish this was already done instead of searching through the forum or using "Search".  

A lot of the time when questions are answered on this board, someone like Bernhard posts links that pretain to that topic.  It would probably be helpful to them if they had a list with at least most common topics. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if some people don't already have some kind of list saved on their computer.  

[faulty_damper]

I have a list of posts that I just save on my Outlook Express saved messages folder: copy and paste it and don't send it to anyone.  I save it but rarely ever go back and read it again.  It's kind of like porn, you save it but rarely look at it again.