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TeAm: Suggestion for our Distributed Computing Forum

Smoke

Smoke

Distributed Computing Elite Member
Unlike other DC Forums, we do not have the luxury of separate forums for each project. At times our DC Forum is a very confusing place. Maybe it is not so confusing for a lot of us REGULARS but imagine looking at our forum through the eyes of a new visitor. I have wondered how they perceive us.

I would like to make a suggestion. Let?s do what the ?For Sale/Trade Forum? has done to keep things a little more efficiently organized. They use abbreviations so readers can quickly determine the nature of the threads. For example: "FS" "FT" "FS/FT" "WTB"

Now this would be a strictly voluntary thing. 😉

Each project should use a short abbreviation so the forum can be quickly scanned for threads of interest. If the thread addresses the whole TeAm then we could use: "TeAm": . We might want to also use: "MISC" or "OT" for threads not project specific.

I?ve run through the front page of our DC Forum and have adjusted each thread to fit the construct of my suggestion:

~~~ Welcome to the Distributed Computing Forum ~~~ ???. AnandTech Moderator
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SETI: Team Anandtech Public SETI Queues: Part IV Pages: 1 2 ???. Poof
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TeAm: Networking thread for the Unemployed Pages: 1 2 ???. dmcowen674
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TeAm: ~~~ AnandTech FAQ update project! ~~~ Done! ~~~ Pages: 1 2 ???. mechBgon
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SETI: Building a TeAm Anandtech BEOWULF - We need stuff Need PAYPAL for Racks!. Pages: 1 2 Last ???. Shuxclams
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SETI: Welcome our newest member - green2 ???. Smokeball
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SETI: TeAm Seti Members - The Official Sign Up for the Virtual InterTeam Race We need you! ???. Crazee
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MISC: OT refurbished MP 1900's at newegg $109 ???. muttley
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DF: DF Daily (01/20/03) ???. m0ti
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MISC: CPU usage display ???. beatle
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OT: Lexmark printer problem.. ???. ColinP
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OT: Maybe you can help me out ???. MoFunk
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SETI: Race Stats and Milestones for 01/19 ???. OhioDude
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SoB: Daily Stats and Milestones - 01/20 - Welcome 12 New Members ???. Confused
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D²OL: Whats up? ???. Carrot39
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SETI: Who's interested in an Inter-Team Virtual Race? ???. Crazee
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OT: Asking my DC family for a favor...Brother doing very poorly......asking again....(1/15/03) Pages: 1 2 Last ???. Engineer
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SETI: A belated welcome to Assim1 !! ???. ColinP
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SETI: MTR- 1/14/03 Stats ???. JustStarting
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SETI: win98 shut down with seti. ???. BigFatCow
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F&H: Folding@Home Statistics and Milestones for 20-Jan-2003 / Welcome, thom001 and weezie! / 200K Total Score Celebratory Edi ???. jliechty
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Find-a-Drug: Stats for 1-19-2003 ???. BitSpit
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SoB: 150G (final) and 1T race updates (1-20-2003) ???. Chipster22
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SETI: S@H daily team stats 01/19 ???. Hellburner
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Find-a-Drug: Stats for 1-18-2003 ???. BitSpit
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DF: DF ???. m0ti
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SETI: main ship problems, randoom rebooting at once stable MHz..... ???. Assimilator1
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SETI: Some TA SETI history ,stats from late 1999 on ???. Assimilator1
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F@H: Folding@Home Statistics and Milestones for 19-Jan-2003 ???. jliechty
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OT: Anyway to display SETI stats on personal webpage? ???. PraetorianGuards
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SoB: 150G and 1T Race Updates (1-19-2003) ???. Chipster22
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SETI: Milestone Makers for 01/18-19/2003 ???. micron
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SETI: Welcome our newest members: Evets, thatbox, and Scarlett (12Jan03) ???. Smokeball
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Greetings From TPR ???. Dalethfc
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OT: Update on Fujitsu Hard Drive Lawsuit ???. dmcowen674
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SETI: S@H Weekly Stats 1.12~1.18 ???. Orange Kid
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SETI: Race Stats and Milestones for 01/18 ???. OhioDude
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SETI: S@H daily team stats 01/18 ???. Hellburner
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SoB: Daily Stats and Milestones - 01/19 ???. Confused
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OT: Meet the TeAm ???. Confused
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SETI: 2nd Fastest Ars Benchmark Time Ever Posted - TeAm AnandTech's "TS- RickD" 🙂 ???. Smokeball
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What do you think? 🙂
 
This would indeed make the forum a bit more accessible. 😉

In some cases this is already done (think of the OT-topics).


Another idea (IMO the most desired option):
If we can make the Anandtech-techies to give us a seperate field, in which the sub-topic is mentioned, then we can sort the threads accordingly. 😛😛
 
Sounds like a great suggestion to be used as much as we can remember to. Awesome suggestion I'll try to do it in the future.
 
Or we could just use the Off-site Forum which is already segmented nicely. 🙂
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Yes, our offsite forum(s) look very good and I wish we could have something here like that but as we discussed previously we need to support our AT DC Forum for it is our "Window to the World". 😉 🙂
 
Great Idea! It would certainly help the non regulars figure out what they are looing at, and the regulars could find what they are looking for a little easier.

🙂
 
I thought about this a little while ago but never mentioned it. In fact, sometimes I know I've posted a few times that way recently when starting a thread.

I think it's a great idea. It will help both veterans and new visitors. 😀
 
I'll be the black sheep here and say I personally think it's completely unnecessary since the vast majority of threads posted already indicate the project in some way.
 
I think we should do it. Not becuase others can't understand it to much, but becuase I don't like cahotic looking things. And if all the threads were "themed" then it would give it alot of organization.

Also, I don't like having a board for every project. 😛 Personally I like how this one is, it allows me to keep up with the other projects just by looking at the titles and such.
 
Great idea, Smokeball; count me in on this one. 🙂

FWIW, I'd like to see F@H used for Folding@Home threads, because it's shorter than FOLDING, and because there are also other types of "folding" projects - that might confuse newbies.
 
FWIW, I'd like to see F@H .....
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I changed my example as you suggested, jliechty. 🙂

This idea and my examples are only suggestions. 😉 🙂
 
Good idea Smokeball 🙂 ,I partially do it already ,I guess I could extend it😉

As for the offsite forums ,I don't have much spare time ,so I'll stick with the original offsite forum www.deception.net 😛😉
 
good idea smoke 😛


muchos gracias assim 😛

the TA seti offsite forum has been rather dead as of late :frown:
 
Originally posted by: RemyCanad
I think we should do it. No becuase other can't understand it to much but becuase I don't like cahotic looking things. And if all the threads were "themed" then it would give it alot of organization.

Also, I don't like having a board for every project. 😛 Personally I like how this one is, it allows me to keep up with the other projects just by looking at the titles and such.
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I'll go along with you Remycanad, that's exactly what I think.
 
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