The FAQ Thread

Spike · Administrator Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Denver

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Whoops.
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evn · Staff Member Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Calgary AB

But there are really only 3 active moderators, and about 30,000 users so maybe he's not that far off

(i kid: there are at least 7 active mods

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HM · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 4:15 am Post subject:

Just a quick question, that may have been asked earlier, but it's something that i think every time i see the home page:

Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

gs68 · Trick Member Joined: 06 Apr 2002 Location: on a plane

There needs to be a message in large font size at the top telling first-timers to read the FAQ before posting and the consequences of not reading it.[/quote]

Cookies · Trick Member Joined: 06 Apr 2002

Perhaps something should be included about the difference between these two buttons:

and

recently I've seen more new topics created in response to another post in another thread than I've ever seen since my join date.

DC · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 12:27 am Post subject:

The FAQ probably needs something in it about DDRFreak policies (i.e. add it to the list of things members need to read). The policies that have a link on the front page have some additional information members would need to avoid breaking the rules, but the FAQ doesn't seem to mention this.

Perhaps a helpful hint for new people. Don't add a post subject when you are making a reply to an existing thread. If you are asked to make a post subject anyway, it means you have hit

instead of

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Remy · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Astoria, NY

Hey folks -

You're never going to believe this.

The FAQ has been updated. Check it out.
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IguanaGrrl · Staff Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA

Thanks to Remy for providing the text for the FAQ update.
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mrÖ¼selfÖ¼Äestruct · Maniac Member Joined: 10 Mar 2002 Location: a warm place

go here and find out

As for what someone said about having "READ THE FAQ" in big letters, there's been talk about making the FAQ part of the sign up process.. ie: the FAQ will be shown to all new users during the registration process.
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Max's Period · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:52 am Post subject:

This may have been posted before, but I don't care. I was thinking, you could send that stepchart thingy as a product you could buy. you could send it over, and we could create edits for our songs. then we can send that file to DDRfreak, and they could put in a Edit songs part on there web page. you could see everyones different ideas!

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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

I don't think this needs to be stickied anymore
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Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

A few things:

The FAQ text neglects the new "Check your points feature". Instead of making members perform arithmetic to check their points, which, arguably, most point holders are barely capable of, you can just check your profile by clicking the link at the top of the page.

Perhaps it would be good to mention Stickied Threads. Quite a few of the stickied threads, especially the "official" threads in DDR @ Home, have a warn warning in the first post for asking questions that are answered in the first post. Mayhaps a carte blance "Read stickied threads before you post in them" rule would be helpful.

The old FAQ mentioned, I think, that only mods/admins can post polls.
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Remy · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Astoria, NY

Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

Perhaps some of the default phpBB FAQ stuff should be yanked from the FAQ, as it directly conflicts with some of the DDRFreak FAQ info, or is otherwise outdated.

For instance, there's a whole section that DDRFreak made for postrank, and then under that, there's the section for phpBB, where, under "How do I get to be a Usergroup Moderator?", the answer is "Ask us!".

Another one I noted is a "Why isn't feature X implemented?" topic, which really has more to do with phpBB administrators as opposed to users,
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IguanaGrrl · Staff Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA

*nod*

I have a small list of things (which is slowly turning into a large list) to work on for the site and I intend on working on that once we have a couple policy decisions completed.

Rest assured, those will be cured when I go through it.

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mrÖ¼selfÖ¼Äestruct · Maniac Member Joined: 10 Mar 2002 Location: a warm place

I know I have access to the forum in which those descisions are being made, but just curious (and for the public).. how ARE those descisions coming along? =P
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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

I just noticed that the old FAQ (I believe) had sig rules (and I think avatar rules too). I was just trying to get the exact parameters for the sig, since I'm looking to expand mine a bit, and that's when I noticed it wasn't there. Had to go hunt it down in the Announcement thread at the top of Imaging.

If I happen to be wrong, and the old FAQ didn't contain this at all, then the new FAQ probably should.

Perhaps the size rules should also be stated in profile.php, under the text which says "This is a block of text that can be added to posts you make. There is a 512 character limit".
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