There are too many forum categories (I think)

[BigToque]

Video
Technical Support
Peripherals
Motherboards
CPU/Processors and overclocking

Everything in these categories is what is in General Hardware. All those forums should get put with Gen. Hardware.

Software should be split into:

Programming
Games
Applications (or another name for that category)

This is just my opinion, but it would certainly help I think.

 

[KLin]

I think offtopic should be split off into:

1. How to score with a chick
2. Why your car won't start
3. who's your daddy and what does he do
4. How to win at Texas Hold'em
5. MichaelD's Rants about young hoodlums.

 

Originally posted by: Stefan
Video
Technical Support
Peripherals
Motherboards
CPU/Processors and overclocking

Everything in these categories is what is in General Hardware. All those forums should get put with Gen. Hardware.

Software should be split into:

Programming
Games
Applications (or another name for that category)

This is just my opinion, but it would certainly help I think.

Maybe im reading this wrong but:
You want less hardware forums. (have you really checked out the mobo and cpu forums?)
You want more software forums.

Anandtech's front page reads "your source for hardware analysis and news"

 

[BigToque]

Originally posted by: Phocas

Originally posted by: Stefan
Video
Technical Support
Peripherals
Motherboards
CPU/Processors and overclocking

Everything in these categories is what is in General Hardware. All those forums should get put with Gen. Hardware.

Software should be split into:

Programming
Games
Applications (or another name for that category)

This is just my opinion, but it would certainly help I think.

Maybe im reading this wrong but:
You want less hardware forums. (have you really checked out the mobo and cpu forums?)
You want more software forums.

Anandtech's front page reads "your source for hardware analysis and news"

I think they should be put together because they just aren't active enough. I think more people might get answers to questions if they were all in the same place.

 

Originally posted by: Stefan

Originally posted by: Phocas

Originally posted by: Stefan
Video
Technical Support
Peripherals
Motherboards
CPU/Processors and overclocking

Everything in these categories is what is in General Hardware. All those forums should get put with Gen. Hardware.

Software should be split into:

Programming
Games
Applications (or another name for that category)

This is just my opinion, but it would certainly help I think.

Maybe im reading this wrong but:
You want less hardware forums. (have you really checked out the mobo and cpu forums?)
You want more software forums.

Anandtech's front page reads "your source for hardware analysis and news"

I think they should be put together because they just aren't active enough. I think more people might get answers to questions if they were all in the same place.

:roll:

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Phocas

Originally posted by: Stefan

Originally posted by: Phocas

Originally posted by: Stefan
Video
Technical Support
Peripherals
Motherboards
CPU/Processors and overclocking

Everything in these categories is what is in General Hardware. All those forums should get put with Gen. Hardware.

Software should be split into:

Programming
Games
Applications (or another name for that category)

This is just my opinion, but it would certainly help I think.

Maybe im reading this wrong but:
You want less hardware forums. (have you really checked out the mobo and cpu forums?)
You want more software forums.

Anandtech's front page reads "your source for hardware analysis and news"

I think they should be put together because they just aren't active enough. I think more people might get answers to questions if they were all in the same place.

:roll:

Seems sensible to me.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Most of the threads in TS I've looked at are answered, and they aren't all hardware related.

Games are just applications, so no need to split them off. Programming would be an under utilized forum, although I don't think splitting it off is a bad idea.

Politics and News is a place for idiots to scream. Let them go somewhere else.

OT is the house that pets won't go near. Burn it to the ground.

 

[dullard]

Yes there are too many categories. I've seen other forums fragment themselves to death. Even with the same number of posters, there just isn't enough people in each forum. Thus posts go unanswered and people leave for good.

About half of threads in Peripherals get 0 responses (or the only responses are bumps from the original poster). But if those same threads were posted in General Hardware, they'd be answered within minutes. If a newbie comes in and makes his/her first post in Peripherals and it goes unanswered, then do you think he/she will stay?

Or what if you have a question about a video card that doesn't work when you plug in your printer in Win XP but they both work just fine in Win 2000? You go to Peripherals due to the printer issue and get no response. You go to Video and are laughed at since this is a Technical Support issue. Go to Technical Support and get 10 posts complaining that it is a Operating System post and a mod moves it there where it sits for days. Or should this have been posted in General Hardware? Bah, I give up and post it in Off Topic and get my answer in 10 minutes (where it is later locked or moved by mods to some random location, but I got my answer and I don't care).

My thoughts:
[*]Group General Hardware, Peripherals, Motherboards, and Video into the same category.
[*]Combine Cooling with Overclocking - they are the same thing essentially.
[*]Then take the CPU part from the Overclocking and move it into General Hardware (people put all the AMD and Intel posts in General Hardware anyways).
[*]End Highly Techincal as no one uses it.
[*]Combine Software with Technical Support - most software posts belong there anyways.

The rest of the forums have well defined uses and sufficient posters to leave alone.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Stefan
I think they should be put together because they just aren't active enough. I think more people might get answers to questions if they were all in the same place.

Video and GH not active enough? Gee whiz. Sometimes I have trouble keeping up. I admit, I sometimes see some overlap between Tech Support and GH threads, but I'm guessing that people read down the list of forums and just see GH first and decide to post there, and didn't notice the existance of TS.

Although, it would keep the majority of 6800/Doom3 threads together.