Is a Question a Tutorial??
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 by RomanDA | Discussion: DesktopX Tutorials
Ok.. this has been kind of bugging me for a while. Why are people posting "questions" to the TURORIALS forums?
I was under the impression that every product has a forum for questions ie:
OS Customization -> DesktopX
Where questions, comments, etc could be posted, but i see more and more people posting these (sometimes the SAME ) questions in the DesktopX Tutorials forum. My problem with this is that the Actual Tutorials are being pushed way down the list making it harder for people looking for actual tutorials to find them.
This is just me being nit-picky.
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Reply #22 Tuesday, March 3, 2009 10:52 PM
It doesn't really have to do with "maintence." No one is adding anything to it. That's how a wiki works: it's a community effort, if the community doesn't help add to it, it won't grow.
I wrote a How to add a New Page article that gives some basic formatting examples as well as tips and guidelines. There's even a Tutorial Template that you can use and just replace the text, the setup is already there. The Tutorials Category also gives more help and information.
The best advice I can give is to look at the other tutorials and articles to see how the formatting works.
And as for it not showing up in the same fashion...I've been asking for a Wiki link in the top navigation since the Wiki was opened (June 2007). "Not until WC2k8/9" and now we're not getting a new design til later this year?
Reply #23 Wednesday, March 4, 2009 1:14 AM
I never see the wiki.I forget we even have one.Sadly,the few times I accidently found it,it didnt have the info I needed.
2 things that have never gone together...Stardock and manuals. 
Reply #24 Wednesday, March 4, 2009 1:24 AM
How to Post a Question: Tutorial
If you are that dumb, rich, hire someone to do it for you.
End of Tutorial
Reply #25 Wednesday, March 4, 2009 3:29 AM
tutorials could also be locked posts so that there can be no replies.
Reply #26 Wednesday, March 4, 2009 4:34 AM
I think one of the reasons nobody adds to the Wiki is that no one knows it even exists...another is there isn't an obvious link to it anywhere. What the site is sorely lacking is a site map. And tutorials should be stuck at the top of each relavant forum section. Why they are allowed to be pushed down is beyond me. Much like the galleries where good artists work is buried under tons of junk to the point that they just stop uploading anything at all.
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Reply #21 Tuesday, March 3, 2009 8:34 PM
im not a fan of the wiki mainly because i dont know how to use it right, and it does not show up in the fashion that this forum does here on WC, making it less usefull to noobs and experienced users alike, i never think to look on it. I come here and check the DexktopX forums for questions (i might be able to help with) etc.
I agree that its hard to find the other forum if you do not know where to look for it, maybe if the right side menu could show "related" forums? Ie, if i click on the DesktopX Tutorials forum, it would show in a section called "related" Os Customizations / DesktopX and other forums that might be related.
I dont know what the answer is, im just posting something i noticed. I dont think the Tutorial forum used to get this much attention, i guess its good that people are here looking, who knows..