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Should we have a Technical Support Forum?

Yes
8 (42.1%)
Indifferent
2 (10.5%)
It's cool the way it is now
9 (47.4%)

Total Members Voted: 19

Voting closed: August 18, 2003, 03:46:48 pm

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Offline Stealth

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Reply #20 on: August 19, 2003, 06:14:53 pm
what thread was that in?
 

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Reply #21 on: August 19, 2003, 06:15:43 pm
The very first thread(named as 'Hi') at the campaigns forum.
My community contributions - Get my campaigns from here.

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Reply #22 on: August 20, 2003, 01:15:52 am
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I suggested a hardware forum over a year ago, and the answer then was no, so why should it be any different?


It shoudn't.

HLP is firest and foremost a gaming forum, and that status is what gives us our free hosting under GS. We're not allowed to go into the territory of other games for which GS has hosted sitesm partially because it's their territory, and partly because it's not ours. Neither is tech support.

Another issue is that the more subforums we make, the less activity. Hard Light is a beehive of activity, and that is what gives it it's status as an excellent place to ask nearly anything. Split that up, and you have an active Hard Light forum, and a dead Tech Support forum. After all, how often do people visit the forums of our hosted projects? Even I'm guilty of the answer "rarely, if ever". :doubt:
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Reply #23 on: August 20, 2003, 02:11:01 am
hmpfh. I visit them everytime there is a new post. So :p
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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #24 on: August 20, 2003, 02:33:03 am
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Offline Turnsky

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Reply #25 on: August 20, 2003, 02:38:50 am
i dunno, there's not actually enough tech questions to warrent a separate forum...
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Reply #26 on: August 20, 2003, 03:05:42 am
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Originally posted by Sandwich


It shoudn't.

HLP is firest and foremost a gaming forum, and that status is what gives us our free hosting under GS. We're not allowed to go into the territory of other games for which GS has hosted sitesm partially because it's their territory, and partly because it's not ours. Neither is tech support.

Another issue is that the more subforums we make, the less activity. Hard Light is a beehive of activity, and that is what gives it it's status as an excellent place to ask nearly anything. Split that up, and you have an active Hard Light forum, and a dead Tech Support forum. After all, how often do people visit the forums of our hosted projects? Even I'm guilty of the answer "rarely, if ever". :doubt:

Seconded.
 

Offline J.F.K.

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Reply #27 on: August 20, 2003, 07:43:11 am
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i was thinking too, if we have a Technical Support forum, it will mean we'll be getting many more visitors to HLP than we do now


That's... err, shaky at best, I think.
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Offline Turnsky

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Reply #28 on: August 20, 2003, 09:03:49 am
indeed... besides...
this is a gaming forum .. not a tech support forum...

anyway.. it's not like we're swarmed by people asking questions about failing hardware and software now, are we?

i think the Hardlight general forum serves that purpose quite nicely..:nod:
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Offline Stealth

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Reply #29 on: August 20, 2003, 03:14:50 pm
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indeed... besides...
this is a gaming forum .. not a tech support forum...


as i've said before:  what do games (any computer game) need to run?  Computers.  and what happens to computers very often?  They break, or don't function properly

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i dunno, there's not actually enough tech questions to warrent a separate forum...


check my first (or was it second) post, where i talked about 5 or 6 threads in the first page of hard light regarding technical questions

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