Another Try

It was another try at trying to get my personal quote to show - which obviously then was unsuccessful but now it works.

Yes I guess. I was not sure what it was called which is maybe why it took me several tries to find the right "buttons". Are the various options explained anywhere with instructions on how to change them? I looked around and did not find anything.

Don't you think this website should have its own simple instructions?

Since you are using it on your site - don't you think you should provide YOUR viewers with instrutions on how to use YOUR site. Speaking of which, perhaps the instructions on using the site - the Read Me First stickee - should be linked to each forum, not just buried at the bottom under an innocuous forum titled "Structure" where you have to really seach to find it? Just a suggestion to make the forum more user friendly.

First I went to ExtremeTech forum where in about 5 seconds I found the help button on the upper right that took me to a long, but organized list of questions and in another 5 seconds I had the information about signatures.

http://discuss.extremetech.com/forums/default.aspx

Then I went to Tweaktown, where in about two seconds I found the "FAQ" button near the top that also took me to a list and in another 2 seconds I had the same information.

http://forums.tweaktown.com/

Then I went to Anandtech where in a split second I found both "FAQ" and help buttons and quickly found the information about signatures under FAQ.

http://forums.anandtech.com/

3 for 3 - and all three had a lot of other helpful information about how to do various things.

Since a forum is about helping people - I think it should be user friendly. It seems the site managers are trying to do a lot of gimmicky things to increase participation - such as this point system and new titles - how about the old fashioned just make it easier to user and more user friendly. Customer service 101.

You can create it

And where are the Form Rules? And how many do you think will find it way down there at the bottom?


Just compare THG to the other 3 and rate the ease of finding, completeness, and ease of undestanding on a scale of 1 to 5, with one being the best. This is one kind of benchmarking every site should be doing.