vL forums get lots of support threads, why not just make a forum already so it's a bit more organized. I think it would be very beneficial rather then having lots of people posting it here in general.

That's a great idea and I never said otherwise.

The idea is good the implementation has to be careful.  Maybe tagged as "Cooperative Support" in which the readers were the source of the support?  There are a sufficient number of intelligent and helpful people who do visit here who might enjoy offering support.  It's a good learning process for those who are helping others.

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The idea is good the implementation has to be careful.  Maybe tagged as "Cooperative Support" in which the readers were the source of the support?  There are a sufficient number of intelligent and helpful people who do visit here who might enjoy offering support.  It's a good learning process for those who are helping others.
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I agree. A simple description such as community driven support or something more eloquent or better for that matter. I truly believe that most support forums are community driven unless it's a technical support based site.

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[quote author=Grok link=topic=13429.msg136618#msg136618 date=1133903376]
The idea is good the implementation has to be careful.  Maybe tagged as "Cooperative Support" in which the readers were the source of the support?  There are a sufficient number of intelligent and helpful people who do visit here who might enjoy offering support.  It's a good learning process for those who are helping others.
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I agree. A simple description such as community driven support or something more eloquent or better for that matter. I truly believe that most support forums are community driven unless it's a technical support based site.
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Care to Moderate it?

The only problem is there may be too many support requests and there are lots of different topics and different programming techiniques on the forums. Would some members who are perhaps needed to give support shy away due to a volume of questions which dont need answering but searching? Just a thought otherwise sounds like a good idea.

Too many support questions, hmm yes.. Thats why they should set up groups to deal with a group of questions, for example: A group to help on computer related, and a group to help on other things. etc.

Would that work better with this idea?

EDIT:

I think it would work smoothly, and no mess and everything is in order, in my opinion that is. :P

On second thought, I'm not convinced we need a new forum.

Support questions for programming are problem in the language-specific forum or the General Programming forum.  Support questions for bots are in their forums, and for computers is in this General Computing.

Yea, it might draw things like programming questions into the forum and theres really nothing "else" to need help with. I mean if there's a new board what's going to go in General Computing!? ;)

I meant a support forum for General Computing but not programming. Well this could not just be limited to general computing while including it.

That would be a good idea. Hardware problems and software problems. Much better than programming support.

There should be a support forum for teen issues also.  A lot of our readers are age 13 to 19 and could benefit from support on common teen topics such as drugs, sex, pregnancy, birth control, ADD, hormones, smoking, acne, HIV/AIDS, herpes, miscarriage, eating disorder recovery, OCD, personality disorder, and such.

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There should be a support forum for teen issues also.  A lot of our readers are age 13 to 19 and could benefit from support on common teen topics such as drugs, sex, pregnancy, birth control, ADD, hormones, smoking, acne, HIV/AIDS, herpes, miscarriage, eating disorder recovery, OCD, personality disorder, and such.
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The forum's implementation isn't supposed to create more support topics, just to organize current ones and provide a more relavant area to ask for help. You wouldn't be getting anymore topics, at least that's the idea behind it.

[quote author=Spht link=topic=13429.msg136974#msg136974 date=1134147906]
... OCD
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[quote author=Spht link=topic=13429.msg136974#msg136974 date=1134147906]
There should be a support forum for teen issues also.  A lot of our readers are age 13 to 19 and could benefit from support on common teen topics such as drugs, sex, pregnancy, birth control, ADD, hormones, smoking, acne, HIV/AIDS, herpes, miscarriage, eating disorder recovery, OCD, personality disorder, and such.
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I actually like that idea. Allow anaonymoues posting because I know I wouldnt want my username to be shown especially if theyre sensitive. If one was implemented.

I wouldn't mind moderating a Support forum for hardware issues; although, it is upto you.

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[quote author=Grok link=topic=13429.msg136618#msg136618 date=1133903376]
The idea is good the implementation has to be careful.  Maybe tagged as "Cooperative Support" in which the readers were the source of the support?  There are a sufficient number of intelligent and helpful people who do visit here who might enjoy offering support.  It's a good learning process for those who are helping others.
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I agree. A simple description such as community driven support or something more eloquent or better for that matter. I truly believe that most support forums are community driven unless it's a technical support based site.
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Care to Moderate it?
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I forgot, yes.

I'll moderate the software part. I think I suggested this already, an open tech support forum, but it might have been on x86.

So Grok is actually going to implent Networks idea? Or didn't he suggest not to? I'm confused now, i'm sure Grok said "nahhh" but you lot are saying you are?

Oh well, i s'pose its up to Grok, and i think it's a good idea.

It's a way to attract new and different types of users to this forum, if that's what you want.

I don't think they really care about attracting more users..too many of us to handle as is. ;)

Like Adron..having to tolerate us north americaners..
Damn europeans.

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[quote author=Spht link=topic=13429.msg136974#msg136974 date=1134147906]
... OCD
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I put that in just for you, nutjob.

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I put that in just for you, nutjob.
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I heart you, Spht.

Don't we all?

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Don't we all?
[/quote]No.

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[quote author=Joe link=topic=13429.msg137115#msg137115 date=1134252299]
Don't we all?
[/quote]No.
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I agree

Somebody doesn't like me? How can that be?  No, it's not true.  I'm a wonderful, wonderful boy.  Everybody likes me.  It's impossible not to like me... Impossible... Yoni?

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So Grok is actually going to implent Networks idea? Or didn't he suggest not to? I'm confused now, i'm sure Grok said "nahhh" but you lot are saying you are?

Oh well, i s'pose its up to Grok, and i think it's a good idea.
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I'm not sure yet.

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[quote author=Saphire link=topic=13429.msg137078#msg137078 date=1134218110]
So Grok is actually going to implent Networks idea? Or didn't he suggest not to? I'm confused now, i'm sure Grok said "nahhh" but you lot are saying you are?

Oh well, i s'pose its up to Grok, and i think it's a good idea.
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I'm not sure yet.
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I think it would be a reasonably good idea, except for the fact that there are a LOT of support-related topics in GC&M right now.  For example, WoW has somehow overwritten my boot sector on several occasions; when this happens I search for my own post related to restoring the boot sector because it's easier to find here than on the MS Knowledge Base.

Other than that, with the right moderators, it'd be okay.

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Somebody doesn't like me? How can that be?  No, it's not true.  I'm a wonderful, wonderful boy.  Everybody likes me.  It's impossible not to like me... Impossible... Yoni?
[/quote]It's not that we don't like you, we just like to disagree with Joe.