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Computer Questions, not as many replies..

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    #32
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Agreed with irlrobins, I used to post often in the Comp/Tech forum but hard to keep up with things these days with them being diluted. *gets cane* I need an upgrade please Vexorg.


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    #33
    cormie
    Registered Users Posts: 20,836 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    the oul tech forum just aint what she used to be aint what she used to be aint what she used to be :(


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    #34
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    I got a poor uptake on my thread (but that was probably because it was a very unusual request and a bit baffling! :) ).

    Comp & Tech does seem to get less of a look over - I only go in to ask a Q or if I see a topic on the main page that I could help with // am interested in...

    🤪



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    #35
    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    The questions with no information in the opening post ware you down after a while. emot-gonk.gif


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    #36
    Matt Holck
    Registered Users Posts: 9,706 ✭✭✭Matt Holck


    I need to care about surfing security before I join


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    #37
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,232 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    personally im just bored of the threads where people ask you to do their computer shopping for you. also if someone already posts the answer i was going to give I wont bother. Then other times you just dont have the foggiest clue, or its not your area of expertise.


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    #38
    _blank_
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    I've asked a few questions in the past six months or so and always found the users to a friendly, knowledgeable bunch.


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    #39
    cormie
    Registered Users Posts: 20,836 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Those who reply always seem to be knowledgeable and friendly indeed, but there's just nowhere near as many replies so you don't get as much input thus reaching that point of solving the issue for more complicated issues.


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    #40
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,232 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    cormie wrote: »
    Those who reply always seem to be knowledgeable and friendly indeed, but there's just nowhere near as many replies so you don't get as much input thus reaching that point of solving the issue for more complicated issues.
    This thread today seems to be an exception to that then: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055320961

    seriously though if you help us help you we can help you so much better.


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    #41
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    There is a couple of reasons and it is pretty much the same thing that happens with communities over time.

    1. Question fatigue.
    Odds on it may of already been asked. People don't like repeating themselves.

    2. Do your homework.
    If you say you have done some level of investigation your more likely to get the interest of the geeks.

    3. Use an interesting subject line.


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    #42
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Comt & Tech is also a pretty busy forum. It's pretty easy for an unanswered question to drop from page 1 in under a few of hours and once that happens you can consider it almost gone for good.

    I'd love to see a way of tagging threads where the OP had received an answer to provide an easy visual way of seeing where help was needed and somehow pushing them down so that other threads, still looking for help, would be moved up.


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    #43
    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Ponster wrote: »
    Comt & Tech is also a pretty busy forum. It's pretty easy for an unanswered question to drop from page 1 in under a few of hours and once that happens you can consider it almost gone for good.

    I'd love to see a way of tagging threads where the OP had received an answer to provide an easy visual way of seeing where help was needed and somehow pushing them down so that other threads, still looking for help, would be moved up.
    A job for CuLT's new Prefix feature. (as seen on the Late Late Show in the Dev forum)


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    #44
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,232 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Sherifu wrote: »
    A job for CuLT's new Prefix feature. (as seen on the Late Late Show in the Dev forum)

    that would be handy alright.


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    #45
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Its also possible that since the OP has been reading and learning more about laptops, his questions may be those of an informed amateur rather then a "n00b", hence few people feeling able to give a good answer.

    In terms of posts, we had an average of just shy of 10k a week here in Jan, its not 13k+ a week in June so the site is getting busier, we have just spread it out more now...

    DeV.


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    #46
    cormie
    Registered Users Posts: 20,836 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Yeah, the questions I've been asking have been getting trickier/less known/specialised in the past months/years I suppose which could be a big part of it, but I still reckon they threads are getting less views no matter how eye catching and clickable the subject makes the thread sound :p


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    #47
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,317 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Cormie, I think resurrecting your own thread is a new low, even for you? :confused:

    Not your ornery onager



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