Originally posted by: Confused
GH needs to be moved to the bottom of the forum listing, or, subject specific threads need to be moved to the right bit of the forum, or locked. A few weeks of the Mods locking down on it, and people will hopefully learn.
Someone I was talking to a little while ago suggested that all members should be forced when they're signed up to go in a "Search Loop" like 50 times, to get them used to the damn search button!
Confused
If locks are given, they need to give the usual explanation -
This is not HARDWARE related. Otherwise, you'll get lots of people posting "Why was my thread locked, mods are mean, whine, etc."
This forum needs a search engine like Google maybe - or something intelligent that'll look for multiple forms of the word. For the forum, HDD does not equal hard drive, so to search for all threads on "hard drive controllers," you may need to look for:
ATA controllers
ATA adapters
PCI IDE card
HDD controller
disk controller card
etc etc etc
Subscribing helps with the search significantly - full-text searches of the text, not just titles. Sometimes people don't put relevant info in the title. A thread that contains info on hard drives can be titled "OMG, I SCREWED UP MY PC!!! HELP!!!!!"
But not everyone wants to subscribe either.