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thermal · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 60

I see many heated posts telling new comers to use the search function, however there is no instruction telling them to do so.

I think this forum needs a forum guidelines sticky telling new users to try searching first, tips on how to best use the search and any forum guidelines that there are (ie be nice). Not everyone is an old hand at message boards and wont know that it is expected to ask questions that cant be answered in a search.

There is some good advice on posting here that could be incorporated: http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/job/viewtopic.php?t=2274

I am happy to write it. I am a newbie so perhaps not the best person but I can give it a shot.

What do you guys think?

JimDunlop2 · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 2286 Location: Japan

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Hey, I think Jim's list alone deserves to be a sticky!!!

I also agree with his comments. People are going to come here as newbies and ignore stickies and FAQs (which in this site are actually inserted as stickies, but for the forum FAQs, there is a nice link clearly posted at the top of each page).

People are going to do what they feel like doing.

A nice site for anti-spyware has a huge set of bold red lettering to announce to first-timers that they should read certain FAQs before blindly posting what and where they shouldn't. I read them, yet still made some blunders just because (in my opinion) the FAQs themselves were a little too complicated. Still, the Cafe is not a complex anti-spyware site, so maybe Dave Sperling (are you listening, Dave?) might take notice in the next format version...