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[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

This is expandable to a custom message per forum, so if you can think of other areas to harness this feature, let me know.

Brandon,

Maybe a message to new posters ( < 10 posts) upon posting in the General Forum along the lines of:

"There are many specific forums on this site, before you post please review the list of forums to see if there's a more relevant spot for your post."

I think this would help reduce some of the clutter in the General Forum during the build season.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Brandon,

Maybe a message to new posters ( < 10 posts) upon posting in the General Forum along the lines of:


I think this would help reduce some of the clutter in the General Forum during the build season.

Good idea. I also threw something in there about 'search before you post'.

-Brandon

[EricH]

Brandon, could you do something in Rules/Strategy about read the manual first (and the obligatory "search first")? Seems to me that there are a lot of threads about stuff that is in the manual and should have been at least reasonably obvious.

[AmyPrib]

Here's an interesting email from '98 that I found in the TechnoKats files. Joe Johnson unveiling the beginnings of CD.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pa...le&paperid=563

Originally Posted by EricH

Brandon, could you do something in Rules/Strategy about read the manual first (and the obligatory "search first")? Seems to me that there are a lot of threads about stuff that is in the manual and should have been at least reasonably obvious.

There typically is a sticky and many threads about "read the rules first" every year, but inevitably we'll end up with Q/As and CD questions that are answered in the game manual. Just try to answer them by pointing them in the right direction and kindly reiterate to read the rules thoroughly and let the game rules sink in before asking.