Dan Kegel wrote: > > You might check what the other popular wine forums have for stickies: > I've seen them. I think WineHQ can do better. I personally think that forums should be closely tied to a relevant Wiki. Forums are a terrible place for documentation (IMHO). Yet that's where a lot of it ends up because there is often no other place to put it. A related Wiki solves that problem. Instead of creating difficult to maintain documentation with limited exposure and peer review, use a Wiki. WineHQ has one! =) We also have the AppDB which is another fantastic tool. If we encourage its use we don't end up with out of date, misleading, and wrong stickies like the WoW stickie on linuxforums.org. If the sticky points to a HowTo on the AppDB, the kinks tend to resolve themselves more naturally. vitamin wrote: > > I like this. We do need something small - max 10 lines. Noobs don't read FAQs, especially if they are pages long. And we can cover most bases with few simple statements. Yup. I think so to. I think the trick is getting folks to read more. To that end, I think one has to use clever, enticing, titles. I'll admit "Forum Guidelines" sounds dry. Introduce it on the forums as "Forum Guidelines - Your guide to a FAST response" and you'll probably get a few more clicks. I was actually thinking about the FAQ a bit too. I think it could be factored and simplified a bit by pulling a few topics out into separate FAQs. Developer related questions could be put into a separate FAQ and the main FAQ could point to it with a question such as "I'm a developer where's my FAQ?" I think the current FAQ looks a bit daunting with its two page contents listing. I don't know; I'm still rolling a few ideas around and I'll post them here if they solidify.
