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Why do people go out of their way to answer questions that we know should be in a different forum with people we know abuse the system? Like, what's the impulse to be the sucker? Not really referring to peeps we know who don't do nothing but abuse the system over and over, but to those who blatantly do not care and 100% of their posts is nothing but questions in the lounge.
And sure, we've all done it at times (myself included). And at times I'll attempt to help if there's no forum suited for the query in question that I know of at the time of replying and it's someone I know. Like for instance, Sander just had a networking question and only now do I realize there's a hosting and servers forum. Oops. So, I guess I'm a hypocrite. 
But, we know Sander and know he's not intentionally breaking the rules. Can't say that for some in the lounge (won't mention his name). So, why? Surely, doing nothing but answering tech questions to people exploiting this fact is not a dev's idea of being "social"?
Jeremy Falcon
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Not to mention there is still someone trying to answer his questions in appropriate forums... 
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I think it's partly because folks know their post will be seen pretty much immediately in The Lounge.
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^ This.
It's not laziness, it's just increasing the odds someone that possesses knowledge on some obscure/very specific topic will see it and offer a response.
Who in his right mind regularly looks at all the forums?
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I think it is nothing more than people liking to help others. Sure, they should refer the questioners to the appropriate forum, but in many cases it's much easier to answer the question.
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And that's noble, in theory. But, if they liked it that much it's just as easy to go to a forum to help keep them active. Side note, it's also called enabling and liking the helping so much they're willing to be blatantly exploited and manipulated.
Jeremy Falcon
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I have an idea/suggestion/solution: it shouldn't be too difficult to give a select few (editors, protectors, whatever) a tool to move a thread to the appropriate forum, eventually informing OP of the change of venue. Not only would this free the lounge of the occasional misplaced thread, it might also breathe life in other forums. In particular, the forum you mentioned, "hosting and servers", hasn't seen a new message since October of last year.
Mircea
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I think mods can already do that. I've had my convos moved on occasion when I posted in the wrong place, like insider news instead of the lounge.
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That's a brilliant idea, and a great point about the other forums... there's a reason they see no life.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Like for instance, Sander just had a networking question and only now do I realize there's a hosting and servers forum
You and me and probably a few more out of the nearly 16M registered members.
The one steadily enforced rule is "no programming question", not "use the obscure forum that was created for that one time someone had a question on that topic and nobody even knows exists, which now includes the guy who created it in the first place". For a software developer site, "Programming vs everything else" seems pretty straightforward to me.
When you have too many subgroups, the end result is that nobody will see the post, and the poster will never get a response.
I'm 100% okay with the current arrangement.
Maybe what we need is some way for an admin to move an entire (non-programming) thread to a different forum, after the fact, if it contains some information that could be really important and useful to a significant number of people, and we don't want to let the thread scroll out of view, get lost in the noise, never to be found again.
But I sure wouldn't want that job.
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dandy72 wrote: You and me and probably a few more out of the nearly 16M registered members.
16M registered members is not the same thing as the unique members, active members, and the amount of people that frequent the lounge. Don't fall into the trap of not knowing what a number really means. We all know who the regulars are here, and it's not too hard to tell when we have a rouge trouble maker actively exploiting people.
dandy72 wrote: The one steadily enforced rule is "no programming question", not "use the obscure forum that was created for that one time someone had a question on that topic and nobody even knows exists, which now includes the guy who created it in the first place". For a software developer site, "Programming vs everything else" seems pretty straightforward to me.
I eluded to the solution to this in the original post when I mentioned even I'll do it at times if I know the person and there's no appropriate forum I'm aware of at the time of my reply. Thus, the solution would be to see if it matches an existing forum. Also, it's easy to tell when someone is exploiting the system or not. I realize most devs lack social skills, but still.... this very, very easy to tell.
dandy72 wrote: When you have too many subgroups, the end result is that nobody will see the post, and the poster will never get a response.
True, but then trim the sub groups as a solution... don't poison and dilute the lounge as the answer.
dandy72 wrote: I'm 100% okay with the current arrangement.
Without any categorization, you're just as bad off. None of us want to be honest here and are stuck in the past it seems. Things could be improved.
dandy72 wrote: But I sure wouldn't want that job.
It's not that hard. I used to moderate message boards as a teenager for AOL under the computing channel. I dunno why we make so many excuses though.
Jeremy Falcon
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Me to hubby: "Maybe you were just pondering in your mind, about how to articulate your thoughts to speech. Therefore I couldn't listen".
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