NIWeek 2010 Discussion Forum

[JackDunaway]

This forum has been thrashed with posts clearly having nothing to do with NIWeek. For the past year and a half, nearly all the threads have been "the same two posts": 

1. "DEAR SIRS, FORGIVE MY LANGUAGE, I AM NEW TO LBVEW, I HAVE HARDWARES ANDLVBEW, WHAT TO DO?"
2. altenbach or Ravens: "..." (well, fill in the blank, you know how they responded!) 

Now, I know it's taboo to delete posts, but could we at least archive these in some hard-to-reach section? The board started off with excellent, relevant threads, and it needs to be revived again with NIWeek 2010 around the corner. I would suggest all irrelevant posts be moved to another board or deleted.

I almost started a post there, but quite frankly, I'm a little scared - the current scene reminds me of something from "I Am Legend" or "28 Days Later".... you know, a once-thriving, now-deserted place with hoards of mindless....

Message Edited by JackDunaway on 06-03-2010 09:38 PM

[JackDunaway]

I'm going to go ahead an broaden this topic: many of the "smaller" forums - including this one, the Feedback on NI Discussion Forums - have a high density of misplaced posts. Can a campaign be started against these posts? Can selected community members be delegates to mark these posts, and then Laura and friends archive or stash (or delete) them? 

[smercurio_fc]

I would find it quite surprising if people actually went directly into that forum to post questions. I didn't even know that forum existed! I suspect the problem is that of forum redirection that often happens. I also suspect it may have something to do with what browsers are used to post messages. But then, perhaps I'm an optimist as far as assuming that people know what they're doing when it comes to posting.

[JackDunaway]

I didn't know it existed either until last night. It's under Forums, then Special Interest Boards, then at the very bottom of Additional Interest Boards. And because the Additional Interest Boards does not have the same format as the above boards (they each show descriptions under the board name), my internet cognition didn't even recognize them as boards.

That being said, it would be a good idea to clean up the board and then create an Announcement: "Discuss your NIWeek plans with others" with a link to that forum.

[Laura F.]

I think the NIWeek forum is now replaced by this NIWeek group: http://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/niweek

Therefore, the NIWeek forum can be shut down unless anyone has an objection.  I'll make sure that's OK with others here and we can disable it.

As for the other forums, if you'd like to notify users posting in the wrong place that they've done so and give them a link to the correct board I will delete the original message once that person has re-posted, provided I am notified by someone.  I just don't like to delete their message if that's the only place they've asked the question.  

Thanks!

Laura

[JackDunaway]

That group is for NIWeek 2009. Will a new group be created for 2010?

[Laura F.]

It looks like they intend to use it for 2010 as I see content in there about 2010.  Can you join it?