On 2012/01/07 16:21, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 01/07/2012 04:01 PM, jdow wrote:
Most are
dreadful, like the Mozilla fora structure. You often can easily find a
dozen
people asking the same question and no answers.
Not only that, on the Mozilla forum, if you do get a reply, almost half the time
it won't be relevant to your question, or will tell you how to do something you
said in your original question that you'd tried already. At that, it's better
than the Gnome forum I found; for all practical purposes, I found it to be a
"write only" group because nobody ever bothered answering anybody's questions.
However, both the Fedora and XFCE forum are quite good. You generally get at
least one answer in under a day, if anybody happens to be able to help. And, the
Ubuntu forum, which I check out once in a while to help my sister is so active
that it's rare to see an unanswered thread on the first page that's over about
two hours old or so. And, if you really need help with XFCE, one of the forum
regulars describes himself as a "Core Developer," giving us almost direct access
to the XFCE devs.
This is why, on occasion, I'll point somebody to the Fedora Forum, but I'd never
point one to the Gnome forum I know of because that would be wasting the
poster's valuable time.
Then there are Fedora and XFCE related "experts" who get a nice feel good out
of helping people. They prowl all the new entries to see if they can help and
do help if they can. I've not really run across a forum that isn't very "flat"
in structure that leads to people reading it all or at least scanning it all.
As I noted, I'd have never bothered to stick with a forum long enough to notice
Reindl's difficulty and solution with an iptables problem. With the email reader
and sorting by email subject it sort of popped out at me so I checked it out in
about 2 seconds of effort.
Forums, for me, violate the 20/20 rule. (If it is more than 20' or 20 seconds
out of the way, it never gets visited.)
{^_-}
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