Chuck Wrote:
I would note that while this has many aspects that make it worthwhile, among them would not be that it will reduce the number of posts of bugs that are not in fact bugs. No amount of correct information posted to any internet resource reduces the volume of posting of inaccurate information. It's a law of digital nature.
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Thanks for response as usual Chuck, it's nice to know that you do hear our concerns, and it shows that at the very NT aren't afraid to talk publically, about problems, ideas and suggestions.
In regards to your law of digital nature, i agree....
But laws are designed to be broken..
Or at least try and bend them to suit your needs. :)
If you look at the feature request list as an example.
Less people post feature requests on the general disussion,
list, because you have a seperate forum for their needs.
Many people visit the feature request forum, to actually help people, who are asking for new features.... (But most of the feature requests are already implemented anyway) It just takes
a community member to tell them how to do it.
What this means for NT, is that they only need to skim the feature requests, because others have already dismissed the idea, or agree very much with the request.
If you just had an email address
[email protected]
Most of your time would invlove telling people to RTM, as the feature already exists.
Out of the 100 or so people claiming to have major bugs, only maybe 10 are going to be actual bugs. So if those 100 people
posted to the bug forum. The community would very quickly confrim the actual 10 bugs, the community would also tell the other 90 paranoid alarmists, to think before posting non existant bugs. This would save Deuce from reading and replying to 90 peoples stupidity shortcomings. :)
It would also cause people who are trying to cause damage to NT's reputation, to be asked nicely to post their message to the bug forum, rather than posting 10 new posts on CGTalk without ever actually mentioning a single bug.
This is not a good thing! (and your competitors know it)
Newbie users who are just thinking of buying LW, will be quickly put off, when they see 7.5b BUG listed in every thread, in every forum, in every niche of the forum.
Having them contained to one forum, (as much as one can)
seems like a smart move from a marketing POV.
"Harm Minimization" :)
I think you would find that people would start using a methodical approach to reporting bugs, if NT let them.
Worley gives Tshirts away to bug finders.
It's a really smart way of making people forget about the bug, and making them happy that they are getting a free t-shirt, instead. (but i don't think you even need to go that far)
Simply putting Bug: in General Discussions forum, would not do the same thing,
It would also not really help if you were looking for a page that contained a bug list (like Bobs page) as you would have to search for every message scattered through the whole of NT's forums
with BUG in the title.
And i'm more likely to just post a Bug Rant instead of searching through 10 differen't forums looking for one particlar bug.
The whole idea, is i spend less time looking and more time knowing.
Anyway, i didn't mean to harp on the subject......
I have made my appeal to the UN.
Thanks again for your reply.