Originally Posted by
Cliff 
Quite honestly, the intent of the manifesto was to have a single link for most pertinent information. Hence no longer having a need for individual stickies that could end up taking the first 20 threads in a section (which IMO gets ugly).
By creating subsections in tech info, you are creating more work since the Manifesto could potentially contain the required information already.
If you want to see something added to the manifesto, simply report the thread that should be added, and any member of the staff can add it. Pretty simple.
Cilff, I agree with you completely (not that you need my approval of course
) on the intent of the manifesto. I too believe that the "most pertinent information" should be found there. However this leaves plenty of potentially otherwise relevant threads left out in the wilderness. Hence the need for the Information Library. I am of the opinion that the Manifesto does not need to have every piece of info (that we can find) housed within its boundaries. I believe it would become bloated and hard to navigate. The "top" or "best of the best" threads should be in there as a reference guide and also a representation of the forum and its technical expertise.
I completely agree with you on the stickies as well. The manifesto, for the most part, eliminated the need for most of them.
In regards to the sub-sections in the Info. Library, I think we can both agree that there are many threads that will never make it in to the Manifesto and probably shouldn't either. I mentioned my thought process on this, up above. However, having them in the Library is probably still a good idea. For this reason, I thought the idea of the sub-sections was brilliant. Yes, in some situations it may very well be redundant but in other situations it would be very helpful. Organization is not usually a bad thing. If all of the threads in the Tech. section could go in the manifesto, then way have the tech. section? Clearly, not all of them can/should, so why not make them easier to track down without having to search too much? I wonder if this might somehow be easier on the staff in the long run??
The other positive I see to all of this is, there may very well be a lessening in the amount of unnecessary threads that we see on a regular basis. Threads that I have seen many of lately. Threads from new members asking the same thing that has been asked MANY MANY times over. Sometimes two and three times in the same week. I wonder if there might be less of an excuse for this if the tech section was organized into sub-sections. I am not naive enough to think they will stop, but noobs would have less of a "leg to stand on" if this section was a "tech. section for dummies", so to speak.
I just don't see any downside to having the organization that the Information Library sub-sections would bring. I don't believe it would take away from the tone or the importance of the Manifesto. I believe these two sections could be considered independent of eachother, despite overlapping in some areas.
You are right that members can report threads to have them included in the Manifesto, but I just wonder how many members would actually do this. I certainly wonder how many noobs would ever do this.
Also, please don't take this post the wrong way. I in no way shape or form mean to trivialize the work or commitment it would take to go about organizing the Information Library into sub-sections. I imagine there would be a signifigant amount of time and effort that would have to be invested to complete this task and also to maintain it going forward. I would guess that the volunteer staff is probably overworked as it is and I can appreciate that. I just think that the Staff here has done a wonderful job, over the last few months, organizing the forum for easier navigation. I guess I just see this as a natural progression of the aforementioned restructuring.
I would be willing to put my money where my mouth is as well. I would be willing to, in my spare time, search for (using go*gle and the forum search) any threads from the Information Library that I thought should go in a specific sub-section. Sub-sections laid out by the staff of course. I could then post up my thoughts for staff review. I can also bug off, if so instructed!!
I apologize if I am over-stepping my bounds here. I believe this is the best of all of the forums I am a member of. It is for this reason that I chose to type so much. Otherwise I couldn't have been bothered.
Tremendous work on the forum here!
Thank-you to the Administration and the Moderators for all of the time and effort. The pay must be great!!!
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