I recently asked a question about a problem I had with AndrewD's great "Links and Downloads Manager" mod. His support thread is huge - but yes I did read through the thread before I asked my question, yet still I *missed* the fact that someone else had asked the question and a solution had been posted but all someone did was provide me a very polite response with "It's answered in post X". Being rather used to forums it wouldn't have bothered me if someone had said "moron it's already been answered" but I found the reasonable response very helpful and surely if this is meant to a community supporting vBulletin hacks and the like helpful responses are what people should be aiming for? Therefore if you can't post a useful or helpful answer why bother to post something that isn't useful or helpful?
What might be very useful would be to allow the hack coder or the person who provides the support to somehow "collapse" parts of a long thread? I've noticed that some threads will be very long and a lot of it will be problems that have been solved in the latest versions of the hack so a way of hiding a range of posts that only refer to previous versions would help everyone looking for an answer to a current problem?
Another suggestion - what about vBulletin.org adding one the auto-link systems to the forum so that when someone types in "It's a phrase called "New_hack_words" the word "phrase" auto links to a FAQ or at least brings up a definition? That would help new people get up to speed with the jargon used here?
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01-22-2006, 10:37 AM
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