winge on
Forensic Focus is an odd board.
I believe it makes a valuable contribution to the forensic community, Jamie's contribution is much appreciated.
However whilst it's regularly viewed the number of posts to the board seem to be disproportionatly low.
One of the reasons for this (IMHO) is the number of sub forums (seventeen).
To make an analogy a village of 50 people living in 10 houses will appear busy, a town with 50 people living in 100 houses will appear deserted.
Moderation aggravates the situation, I've often gone back to threads in 'General discussion' to find them moved elsewhere without a pointer to that thread.
Not wanting to hunt for the post I've gone off to do something else (like work or something 😯 ).
I feel this happens to a lot of threads and stifles further contributions to discussions.
winge off
I agree. However the King of too many sub-forums is Disk Labs with over 25 sub forums dedicated to data recovery alone!
Greetings,
I've had no trouble finding the information I've looked for, and I find the number of sub forums reasonable. I can easily look at the main page to see what is new, and there is very little overlap in the coverage, thus limiting cross posting.
-David
Greetings,
I've had no trouble finding the information I've looked for, and I find the number of sub forums reasonable. I can easily look at the main page to see what is new, and there is very little overlap in the coverage, thus limiting cross posting.
-David
I suppose it is an ironic complaint considering what we do )
However as an example "Getting started", "Employment and Career Issues" and "Education and Training" cover pretty much the same ground.
A number of other groups also cover similar areas.
Moderation aggravates the situation, I've often gone back to threads in 'General discussion' to find them moved elsewhere without a pointer to that thread.
Is this really a big problem? I don't know the exact figures but my guess is I move no more than one thread per month (at most) and of those nearly all are after the first post, i.e. yet to receive a reply, and relate to student projects.
Not trying to sound defensive, I'm just very surprised to hear you've found it an annoyance!
Jamie
PS I should add that I'm not unsympathetic to the general point being made, though.
I think any forum owner will say that deciding how and when to divide forums into separate topics is always challenging, and you're never going to make everyone happy all the time. Personally, I don't agree that "Getting started", "Employment and Career Issues" and "Education and Training" cover pretty much the same ground - to me they're distinct enough to be usefully separated. However, I've never been too sure about the "Methodology" forum, it seems to me that's not always clearly distinguished enough from discussions in the general forum for it to be useful.
Some of the forums are also little used, or are used primarily for promoting a new item of content (e.g. Reviews, Interviews) and we might be better off getting rid of them to cut down on the clutter.
Just some thoughts -)
Jamie
Not sure what Hugh is on about re the moved posts but very much agree with him re the number of forums.
I feel that a good few on them could be merged with general - I rarely visit any of the other forums just becuase I dont have time to flick through them all - I would suggest merging hardware/opensource/commercial/methodology and network into general - these are all very much related subjects. A quick review shows that most of these forums have much less than one new topic per day and quite a few of the threads could have easily been posted in general as they are.
Much easier to spot a title that I am interested in under one heading
Greetings,
I very much like having hardware, open source, and commercial as distinct sub forums. They are very distinct topics.
-David
LOL - see what I mean? lol
Maybe we should put it to a vote…
PPS I think I'm right in saying that the
Jamie