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Udel

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Doesn't anyone else thing a "Programming" forums is a good idea for ATOT? Novices and experts alike can come together, ask questions, get answers without having to spam other forums. Could be a great resouce for us programmers to be. 🙂
 
I also said "without having to spam" other forums. Which is what I feel like I am doing when I ask a technical question on the games forum.
 
Originally posted by: Udel
I also said "without having to spam" other forums. Which is what I feel like I am doing when I ask a technical question on the games forum.
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but not when you post a forum issue post in the off topic forum?
 
Originally posted by: Udel
I also said "without having to spam" other forums. Which is what I feel like I am doing when I ask a technical question on the games forum.
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If you oversplit the forums, then no one goes in. Questions remain unanswered, and people find it useless to post there. Then they leave Anandtech and go to another forum where the questions are answered. Its happened in the past and it will happen again.

With combined forums, you get people in to read your thread who otherwise would never have clicked on that forum link. You get a wider variety of answers and get the answers more quickly. It is a good thing. The side effect of course is that you have to scroll past a few threads that you aren't interested in.

To understand me, take it to the extreme. Think of thousands of individual specialized forums for each type of thread. Who the hell has the time to read them all? No one. Thus no one will read your posts. Sure you aren't talking about such an extreme. But it goes to show that splitting it too much is a very bad idea.
 
"this category is not actively monitored. Not all topics are responded to."

Pretty much says it all.
Just trying to get this as much attention as I feel it deserves.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: Udel
I also said "without having to spam" other forums. Which is what I feel like I am doing when I ask a technical question on the games forum.
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If you oversplit the forums, then no one goes in. Questions remain unanswered, and people find it useless to post there. Then they leave Anandtech and go to another forum where the questions are answered. Its happened in the past and it will happen again.

With combined forums, you get people in to read your thread who otherwise would never have clicked on that forum link. You get a wider variety of answers and get the answers more quickly. It is a good thing. The side effect of course is that you have to scroll past a few threads that you aren't interested in.
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Gewd Point.
 
Atleast combine Highly Technical, with Programming. Progamming is a pretty focused way of thought and, in my opinion atleast, it would do better being seperating from the games forum in several concievable ways.
 
Originally posted by: Udel
Atleast combine Highly Technical, with Programming. Progamming is a pretty focused way of thought and, in my opinion atleast, it would do better being seperating from the games forum in several concievable ways.
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Just what we need...Highly Technical flooded with Hello World type questions.
 
games and programming only overlap when you are talking about programming games

they should be separate and i cannot understand why mods have hesitated at all to separate them
 
Originally posted by: Udel
Atleast combine Highly Technical, with Programming. Progamming is a pretty focused way of thought and, in my opinion atleast, it would do better being seperating from the games forum in several concievable ways.
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I strongly support deletion of the highly technical forum. The Peripherals forum as well. If they removed those two, then I would be willing to let one new Programming forum be created.

That way, the forums don't get too fragmented and nearly everyone is satisfied.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: Udel
Atleast combine Highly Technical, with Programming. Progamming is a pretty focused way of thought and, in my opinion atleast, it would do better being seperating from the games forum in several concievable ways.
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I strongly support deletion of the highly technical forum. The Peripherals forum as well. If they removed those two, then I would be willing to let one new Programming forum be created.

That way, the forums don't get too fragmented and nearly everyone is satisfied.
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CPU and Cases & Cooling could be condensed.
 
Originally posted by: Udel
CPU and Cases & Cooling could be condensed.
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Yep, and while we are at it lets put the dozens of stickied LAN threads into the now mostly Games forum instead of Off Topic.

 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: Udel
CPU and Cases & Cooling could be condensed.
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Yep, and while we are at it lets put the dozens of stickied LAN threads into the now mostly Games forum instead of Off Topic.
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Good call.
 
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