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ivan747:

--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on February 08, 2012, 11:13:21 pm ---There can come a point where a forum becomes so popular that you just can't keep up, the interesting stuff gets so buried in the noise or everything gets swamped by dumb newbie questions.
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This is what happened to EdaBoard, most people just ask for help and there's virtually no discussion on the topics, and most of the replies are just asking for more details. On average a topic in that forum will get 5 replies before getting buried in the second page.

Please, don't divide the forum into 40+ sections, just adding 3 or 5 will be fine. Here are some categories you could add, Dave without the silly names I've chosen:

Test equipment
Off topic - here's where people can add those polls and have those 6 page long threads discussing things like factory farming, the best country to work as an EE and possibly Mechatromer's function generator with the output power of a power supply if it doesn't get too technical.
Repairing - ask for help as well as show you repair and restoration projects here
Show your projects here - you show your projects here. Pictures are recommended. Here one can show the progress of a project with pictures or maybe a finished project. The ideal place for you to host Dave's Power Supply saga or the QuadCopter. (by the way, how's that going?).

Ivan

DavidDLC:
Now that Kiriakos is gone this is getting boring !

HLA-27b:
A dedicated <Open Source> section is a must!

ivan747:

--- Quote from: HAL-42b on February 09, 2012, 12:16:29 am ---A dedicated <Open Source> section is a must!

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That would fall under a "show your project here" section. You can ask people to say it is open source on the thread's title.

elCap:
Yes, the forum is getting more popular, but not too popular. For me the number of posts are OK. What sometime strikes me is the number of guests viewing the forum. Please join I say!
 
The number of sections is good, but maybe a few more would be OK. For instance there are quite many questions and discussions on oscilloscope so a section on that might be good. Same goes for multimeter. More than that isn't needed I think.

A problem that many forums suffer from is that people tends to start a new topic in the wrong section and/or with a subject that doesn't say anything what it's really about. (How many in real life would go to the HR department, stand in the door and say "I need help" when they have a problem with a multimeter?  ::) )

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