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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
If someone compares the Gen3 to the Opus and follows your prefix layout thus choosing "Bookeen" or n/s or a blank prefix, how would it be of any help to others?
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You asked: "What if a user wants to talk about multiple devices of the same vendor? What if he wants (corr.) to talk about the company but not about a specific device?"
A possible solution could be, to have a "general" prefix, assuming the starting point has been "make prefixes mandatory" = If it's not Opus/Gen3 specific it's "general", so you'd need (at least) a third prefix.
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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
I don't see how it is useless. Can you explain why it is useless?
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If I sort by prefix "Opus" I won't find ALL posts regarding Opus, so it's simply useless if one tries to find information for (t)his device.
Posts for Opus can have:
- Opus prefix
- Gen3 prefix (wrongly choosen or info on both devices)
- no prefix (either not set or posted in the pre-prefix era)
See, it'd be no problem for you and me to find something, my concern is new and unexperienced users. Sorry, but I can't see, how optional prefixes are useful for them?!
BTW: How can you find out, if a part-time liar tells the truth? (= same problem)
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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
(we do have tags already in place; everyone can add new tags to existing threads).
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I know, but I thought of making them - don't shoot me - mandatory...
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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
My experience is that trying to "order" a live community is only practical to a certain degree. We are trying to come up with a selection of useful and logical forum categories. But in regard to discussions, we do not want to forcefully restrict users in how they have to categorize their threads. It's limiting, and I honestly fail to see the added bonus.
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What if you don't change anything at all?! Or at least, just add some needed and requested features/functionality (like e.g. prefixes, Netronix forum, new devices forum, developer section etc...).
Radical changes, like "no subforums" or "different categories" may sound tempting at first, but as is written "never touch a running system" - and that is soooooo much TRUE...