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ATTENTION: Everyone Please This Read Now!

post #1 of 21
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Some of you have noticed now that our little niche in N.B.F. has become quite popular no doubt because of Dell’s amazing success in the computer market. With their success comes our success with new users inputing into our now not so little community helping each other like forums are supposed to. I wanted to add guidelines to some things we should do to help other members out.

1. Regarding SHIPTIME/LCD ISSUE THREADS
These topics which have been the brunt of all new posts in this section alone. I’ve gotten a LOT of complaints about these 2 topics showing up every other post and I sort of agree here and there that we should trim down on them. Things we should be doing is posting on top of older threads unless there is specifically an issue with either topics that no one has seen or heard about yet. Remember making more than 1 topic of the same issue will make it that much harder to find a resolution for when someone runs that line on the search bar.

2. Regarding SUPPORT QUESTIONS
I know some of you avoid the support section which is ok because dedicated people like Myself, Sakor and many others visit to lend a helping hand there. However some of you feel posting questions there wont get answers so instead you post in the general popular areas. Its not like Im not allowing such a thing but asking questions there will only clutter that section when you have a dedicated area where people are willing to answer. I even make it a point to search for no reply topics in the support section and find any solution possible to help so don’t be afraid to use that section instead of loading up the already popular areas which causes clutter there.

3. Regarding SIGNATURES
So far this has been the bane of my existence here. Some of seem to think that making your signatures over 10 lines long garners uniqueness or attention but your doing something which annoys people. Simply put some of you don’t realize that when you have a signature that’s vertically impressive your also displaying it each time you post. Someone who has no signature and posts 11 times will be usually out sized by those with huge sigs who posted only 3 times. I wanted to issue some advice and guidelines for those of you making a sig or who have one that is just too tall. Build your sig horizontally Like My profile or Dellbert’s and Sakor’s just to name a few example. Try not making them taller than 10 Lines and in fact make the font size smaller if you are looking to make it vertically built. As time goes on our screens will be wider not taller since so few of us plug in to an external screen with massive resolutions.

These are the points I wanted to get across with you all today I hope you will follow some if not all my guidelines here and together lets make this forum better than it already is ok?
Failure to comply will result in termination with EXTREME prejudice ! J/K
post #2 of 21
I understand what you're saying about the signatures--then realized how obnoxious my sig could be.

I made the whole thing font-size 1 and put the "specs" on two lines instead of 5.

post #3 of 21
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
It's about time that something like this was made.

BTW. My sig is basically copied off of Dellbert's, because I admired the clean look he put up.
post #4 of 21

Thanks

Thank you for the guidelines. I will keep those in mind in the future. I apologize if I violated any of them earlier. I am still getting used to nforums. Thanks
post #5 of 21
Ah. Much better.

-Doc
post #6 of 21
DELL-Machina,

Can you make this a sticky in all the Dell Forums, not just the 9300 forum?

Most people might not see this.
post #7 of 21
/Chaz and my wheelchair avatar tell all the truth about me, I have no need to hog via a big sinature, Congrats on the good idea, yours truly the scooter cruiser AKA Chaz.
post #8 of 21
Thank god there is an option for not showing avatars and sigs in the options menu. Some are the most obnoxious and ridiculous I've ever seen
post #9 of 21
It would help also if were to STICKY or MERGE some of the threads. That way they do not get re-created. Thats what I used to do with some forums I was moderating.. back in the day. Some 'creative' content organization helps.
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Silly Moderators and their silly utopian dreams

In a perfect world...
post #12 of 21
skeptic Axiom? If no-one believed anything could ever be improved/ made perfect then no change would ever be made... that = bad . Good on the mods.
post #13 of 21
Quote:
Originally Posted by Speedde423
BTW. My sig is basically copied off of Dellbert's, because I admired the clean look he put up.
this is probably a noob question but here goes, how do you get those vertical lines between the specs in your sig??? I can't seem to find that symbol and i don't think its a letter....
post #14 of 21
on a pc at least it is right above the enter or return key. | or just cpy and paste that one...
post #15 of 21
\\\ (lower case) |||| (UPPER CASE)="|"
post #16 of 21
oh, thanks a lot, now i feel real stupid
post #17 of 21
Gotcha.
post #18 of 21
ok well now that I found the support one and started the thread there how do I delete the one that I had started in this general section?
post #19 of 21
Don't matter I got it

Stu
post #20 of 21
Quote:
Originally Posted by DELL-Machina
3. Regarding SIGNATURES
So far this has been the bane of my existence here. Some of seem to think that making your signatures over 10 lines long garners uniqueness or attention but your doing something which annoys people. Failure to comply will result in termination with EXTREME prejudice ! J/K

DELL-Machina,

Have a question.... One thing that really irrates me is people posting for HELP and they don't post the model number, mfg, etc in the BODY of the post asking for help. Relying on their "Sig" instead....

Only takes a few seconds to do so.

The reason I consider this important is it helps everyone follow the thread better.... and it is especially important for someone doing a search later on. On most boards "sigs" are stripped out and I'm wondering how this would effect someone searching for info on a problem, How this would affect search engine spiders at a later date.

Are the "sigs" on this board stripped out when data is archived? Can say Google, etc two+ years from now if it has NOT already archived the data itself "see" the info in a "sig".... So someone who is doing a detailed search two + years from now can find the right info?

To me putting the "Problem", the Model, mfg, bios revision, OS being used ,etc in the BODY of the post ties in the PROBLEM, with the model number, etc... and ties the suggestions posted by others, the "FIX" to same. If the info is not "seen", that pretty much makes the posts, and the thread pretty much a waste of time for all, except for that (1) person who poised the orginal post for help.

Another aspect of "sigs" I've run into on other boards is there will be a thread with some good info, Info you may have found via a search.... and someone has changed their "sig".... On some boards when you change you "sig" it changes on ALL posts you've made... which can be very confusing. (I.E. Problem+ FIX does not match up model number, mfg.)

Wondering...
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