A suggestion to Improve the Forum'sFollow

tell the non premium ones they can do a half search of the forums by typeing in the ir query in google and specify ffxi.allakhazam.com as the url.

Thanks for considering it, perhaps you'd need to give the premium's something new like an ignore list for example

I would be willing to help, I think a common questions area for new players would be great! I hate to see them running around without signet, and throwing away beastmen seals.

I want to comment here b/c I thought the administration might appreciate a non-premium member's input. The only reason I have considered getting a premium account is for the search feature. Yes, the other features are nice, but not good enough for me to ever switch over. Thus the selfish part of me would love for you to add this feature for the non-premium members. However, the decent part of me thinks that it would be unfair to take more advantage of this site than I already do without contributing through a premium account. I suspect a few more people would not switch over to premium accounts if you add a basic search feature to non-premium accounts. Take that as you will.

I created a post with links to most of the good guides/informative posts on the thief forum awhile back. (And the the nice people in the admin finally decided was sticky worthy. ^^ ) Did it help eliminate repeat questions? I think it did a little. I get really excited when I see an old guide/post pop up on the first page again. It indicates that someone is using my sticky.

Does it eliminate the repeat posts? No. Absolutely not. Think for a moment about how many new "How do I fish?" and "How do I garden?" posts are constantly appearing in the Tradeskill Forum. You would think between Popsi's Link Sticky and Pikko's awesome gardening site 99% of those posts would be eliminated. Some people just refuse to use the resources given to them. I have trouble believing these people would use a search function any better than they use popsi's sticky.

It is still worth making the guides though. Most people are smart enough to use them. While I am certain the administrators have tried to implant brains in the ones who don't, the transplants have consistently failed.

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Do you have any idea how long it takes to manually search through the posts in the thief forum? Do you have a brain transplant handy perchance?

Edited, Sun Oct 17 17:39:30 2004 by LostTink