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LovedInEmeraldDQDisc
unkx80: To LovedInEmerald: May I ask you not to delete your questions after they are answered? If the page gets too long, the content can be moved to other pages or new pages. By the way, the questions you post are anything but dumb. LovedInEmerald I have a list of links above which covers most of the answers to my questions. Anything which is different enough to have it's own page created is generally done quite quickly by Charles. However if you would like me to leave them up for longer then I will do but I would appreciate not having more than two questions on the page at a time as generally this gets too confusing and new content is not always/easily spotted. If there is anything previously that you or anyone else would like to dig up it can be accessed on page history and feel free to do whatever you like with it on this site as long as you let me know of course :). If I find my homepage getting cluttered after leaving the questions up I will go back to deleting them after they are answered and I have encountered another hurdle (I only delete questions if I have another question to put up). Out of interest, I really have covered most of the links in response to Fhayashi above. Are you actually interested in the questions as much as the answers? If so let me know and I'll take a look at some of the questions and see what I think (I wasn't expecting an audience when I wrote them so I may want to edit them if you turn them into a page :p). ps. I call them dumb questions as a joke in response to a post made by Jan when I first created the page ;). Charles I think my comment is that we have several kinds of time here: 'newsgroup' time where things are discussed more-or-less in real time, and at the other extreme 'encyclopedia' time where we lay down both FAQ-style and reference-style pages. Anything that is posted and then edited away is in old versions, but hard to find. LovedInEmerald So, what I could do is browse back through versions of pages I've saved on word and also ones in the page history and create a series of FAQ type pages of the questions I ask (LovedInEmeraldQ1 etc...). Does this seem like a reasonable idea to everyone? If not, post here and I'll reconsider :p. Charles The 'help desk' can itself be helped by having previous discussion to link to. LovedInEmerald So that means my idea seems like a reasonable compromise between leaving the questions on my homepage and deleting then? Whilst I think I understand what you mean possibly you could make yourself a touch clearer :S? If yes then I'll start looking at the previous versions of my page and post up the series of questions one at a time ;). unkx80: Sorry if I sounded rather arrogant. Anyway I accept your explanation. But sometimes the questions themselves are interesting. Anyway I do not wish to impose on you suggestions you do not feel comfortable with. Charles To second that: it is customary round here to see discussions as a communal resource; but it's also not customary to lay down the law about how things 'ought' to happen. I don't think you need feel diffident about any of this, as far as requiring self-deprecation and so on goes. LovedInEmerald Okay, so in that case I'll carry on with my idea of putting the material back up only as a series of questions rather than on my homepage. To unkx80, that's cool I wasn't deleting them from any desire to prevent other people from accessing the information but there is at least 20 printed sides in total which as a homepage would look ridiculous. Also I really didn't think there would be much interest as most of the material was answered with a referral to another part of the site (if you include questions which charles wrote a new page to answer). As I now know different I'll start setting up new pages with anything I think required more than just a link to answer and putting it up (also anything new will go onto a seperate page after I've finished with it here). Thanks for your input anyways :). This is a copy of the living page "LovedInEmeraldDQDisc" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |