Computer Questions, not as many replies..

cormie

Just something I noticed. Like the last time I bought a new laptop (2 years ago), I've ended up asking a million questions in the computers forum about different issues etc on the new laptop. Only last time there seemed to be far more replies and activity in each thread. I'm guessing the lack of activity is due to the fact the forum has been split into different sections, or else people are just sick of all the questions

And interestingly, even though there would be far more threads filling up the computers forum, thus pushing threads back to the 2nd and subsequent pages more often, my threads still managed to get a lot more activity 2 years ago. Anyway, just thought I'd point it out.

Although Almighty Cushion still manages to pop up and help me in nearly every thread the bleedin weirdo

Xavi6

Yeah I posted hoping to get a bit of help woth my printer but alas no replies. Maybe people just aren't too interested.

Pherekydes

cormie wrote: »

Although Almighty Cushion still manages to pop up and help me in nearly every thread the bleedin weirdo

I'm sure he'll cop on after seeing this thread.

cormie

Slow coach wrote: »

I'm sure he'll cop on after seeing this thread.

Not sure if you're serious but I was joking (note the , ) and I'm very grateful for all the help he's given me, I wouldn't even have the laptop if not for him helping me so much.

Karoma

Or maybe people are posting everything in Comp & Tech and not in the correct forum?
That aside, I was active around 'Tech' around the time you were going through your questions phase - I think I tried to answer a few of your questions; you posted more questions than average, I'd say.
Comp & Tech is the AH of Tech - those poor bastards.

estebancambias

Hey Cormie don't worry about Slow Coach, he thinks he's Almighty Cushions mate.

biko

ActorSeekJob does a good job on the virus stuff

AlmightyCushion

estebancambias wrote: »

Hey Cormie don't worry about Slow Coach, he thinks he's Almighty Cushions mate.

Unlike you and me esteban, we're the best of buds.

cormie wrote:

Although Almighty Cushion still manages to pop up and help me in nearly every thread the bleedin weirdo

Banned from laptops.




No, seriously.

estebancambias

We certainly are buddy.

440Hz

Karoma wrote: »

Or maybe people are posting everything in Comp & Tech and not in the correct forum?

+1 on that. Thing is even though there are dedicated forums, things still get messy like you can get iTunes questions in Comp&Tech (for the windows users) and in Mac for the Macheads, as well as iPod questions in PMP (usualy PC-heads there again) and the Mac-heads tend to come directly to Mac. I reckon the amount of questions/answers are the same, they are just ending up in various forums now.

cormie

Yeah I remember you were helpful too Karoma, thanks and I did indeed ask more questions than average, just don't wander into the motors forum if you think I was bad in tech with questions

I do think a lot of questions can fit into many forums as 440 says so they are kind of scattered around and each forum would have a different set of regulars who may be able to help a thread just as well in another forum but never venture in there. I think before it was that they all congregated in the one forum so threads were answered by more folk.

Still have access to laptops, whoo

TerrorFirmer

I respond to quite a lot of threads in B&U, Graphics and occasionally laptops (when it's actually graphics related), but I actually never even read Comp&Tech...:D

Kintarō Hattori

Maybe the figures will say otherwise but I too think the auld computer forums don't get as much traffic as they used too. When they were moved far right

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> they seemed to loose alot of steam and then they got sub divided they seemed to loose steam again.

Is that the case? Is it just that people are better informed and know how to google?!

Lazarus2.0

OK guys , spill the beans . WTF is a computer ????

Kintarō Hattori

One of these things. Don't think about getting one though as you need a degree to run one and a licence to own it.

Ruu_Old

^ Nice rig.

Gordon

Nice steering wheel. Or is it a hamster power generator?

Kintarō Hattori

Gordon wrote: »

Nice steering wheel. Or is it a hamster power generator?

I reckon its the latter.

Beruthiel

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Banned from laptops.

How in Thors name are us Mods to be taken seriously with such an obvious abuse of power!?
I vote AC for demoddation. All users will be glad to know it's a long and painful process.


Regi looks particularly tired and aged in that pic btw, taking care of Boards servers has really taken it's toll on him.

eo980

eo980 wrote: »

One of these things. Don't think about getting one though as you need a degree to run one and a licence to own it.

Pic needs more Ceiling Cat.

stevenmu

I know personally I used to read and post a lot more when it was only comp & tech and a few more specialised forums. I thought it worked a lot better as one general forum to deal with nearly everything, with a few off-shoots to cater for the more technically detailed aspects. It's not that there's anything really wrong with the current way, I think it's just a personal preference of my mine, the old comp forum was a bit like a pick and mix, a little bit of everything from one thread to the next. Maybe everyone else feels different, I just thought I'd throw it out there.

Esel

cormie wrote: »

Just something I noticed. Like the last time I bought a new laptop (2 years ago), I've ended up asking a million questions in the computers forum about different issues etc on the new laptop. Only last time there seemed to be far more replies and activity in each thread. I'm guessing the lack of activity is due to the fact the forum has been split into different sections, or else people are just sick of all the questions

And interestingly, even though there would be far more threads filling up the computers forum, thus pushing threads back to the 2nd and subsequent pages more often, my threads still managed to get a lot more activity 2 years ago. Anyway, just thought I'd point it out.

Although Almighty Cushion still manages to pop up and help me in nearly every thread the bleedin weirdo

Ever think it might be.......


















you?

cormie

Well no because I asked a lot more questions last time I got my new laptop

Esel

So you said... "asking a million questions".

Doing a 'cormie' on it. :rolleyes:

cormie

haha, well let's just say I asked 3 million last time and 1 million this time and got more activity in the 3 million threads the last time then the 1 million this time. Or something...

RoundyMooney

Christ.

DonkeyStyle \o/

stevenmu wrote: »

Maybe everyone else feels different, I just thought I'd throw it out there.

Yeah I hear that.
It's gotten so granular around here that today I actually had to use google to find the motors forum.
Can't you guys put the inactive crap forums into their own little drop-down instead of us having to wade through them to find the good ones?
Thank God for the 'Subbed' drop-down menu, that's all I can say.

homah_7ft

Does an inactive forum ever get closed?

RoundyMooney

Yes, they do.

irlrobins

Yes there has been a drop off in traffic in the Comp/Tech forum. It used to have the second highest number of posts (after AH), but has now dropped to fourth.

I feel this is due to the Tech category being further subdivided. Posts that would have been posted in the Tech/Comp are now posted in say Building & Upgrading, Computer Health, Laptops, etc.

I'd be interested to see how the stats for the Tech category as a whole look, before and after the subdivision of forums, and see if the post rate has remained the same.

One possible effect of sub dividing is that people might only look at one or two forums, rather than across all the forums. That's something I've found myself. I used to read Broadband, laptop, net comms quite regularly. But now I think there's just too many forums under Tech to be able to commit myself to read them all.

Faith

I find the users of all the Tech forums really helpful. Any time I've a question, somebody is always willing to help out, and they're nearly always right.

Maybe the quantities of replies has dropped, but I usually find the first few posts have the answer anyway.