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Good post, Charles, and some very good points. I assume that most of the people act out of both motivations to help.
I see splitting the forum into some subforums to accomplish this job: In the general forum, there'd be some general stickies as well as one explaining how to meaningfully ask for help, the subforums would have more specialized stickys (most of them still to be written). If we had maybe two or three people with at least the authority to move threads inside the Calibre forums, everything could be kept relatively tidy. The users would then, from the main forum, see where they would need to go to ask questions, and the regulars could choose which forums they'd like to or feel comfortable to help in.
This, of course, assumes that the person asking to help is actually willing to learn something. I don't know how to work around it if they aren't.
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