What goes around comes around

trooper

I've been an active member of phpbuilder for a few years now and i've noticed that the same questions are being asked several times. NOw thats just human nature.. as more people discover php then they are going to ask the same questions - fair enough

Just a thought - Should the forums not be further subdivided into specific areas - that way people will be able to quickly find what they are a looking for (yeah i know the search facility is for that but a lot of people don't actually use it), and others will not be answering the sam questions time and time again.

jstarkey - i don't know what your expectations were when the board was first started but its become the defacto place to find help and give help. SO what ya reckon - time for additional boards that relate to specific frequently asked questions etc

cgraz

this is a good point, however, when you view the boards, you only get 20-30 (or whatever the number is) threads per page. Searching is much faster than having all the posts in one forum "room". Even if you merged the 4 main PHP divisions into one, people would still continue asking the same questions.

One of the things we've done to solve (or atleast help) the problem is create stickies in the Newbies, General Help, Database, and Coding forums. These are frequently asked questions or common problems that are addressed.

Also, the Resolved feature was added to help people searching find their answers quicker. Unfortunately, a lot of people still aren't using it; but it is getting used a decent amount. Also the mods are going around and marking threads resolved that have already been answered.

Cgraz

trooper

cgraz

I think perhaps you got the wrong end of the stick - i was advocating increasing the number of forums rather than merging them into 1.

So say for example having one to do with cookie and then all cookie related questions in there etc etc

Just a thought 😃

jstarkey

trooper, I'll see what I can come up with, but we want to avoid having too many forums.

trooper

Sure thing jstarkey

Just think that if it was possible to not always answer the same questions week in week out my learning could improve 😃

Anyways keep up the good work

stolzyboy

trooper

A lot of us mods along with jstarkey have been trying to come up with new ways to handle this, it is really hard to do so and keep the forum numbers down to a minimum (as jstarkey stated)

stolzyboy

trooper

Yeah i can appreciate that

How to take it further without ruining what is an excellent service