Quote from: -ck on May 12, 2015, 01:58:18 AM

Quote from: Bicknellski on May 12, 2015, 01:15:17 AM

While were are taking about the repurposing of threads in HARDWARE...

CK can you move all the Antminer / Avalon SUPPORT threads to the MINING SUPPORT section?

Since we are talking about whole threads being not really about HARDWARE anymore.

No. Without a dedicated hardware support section, it's flexible enough for hardware announcements and discussions to turn into support threads, even though there is obviously then crossover with the mining support section. Competitions have previously been problematic though and I'd rather avoid that mistake again. The mining subsections are historical in development and no longer ideal but despite discussing this many times over we've been unable to come to something where the demarcation is clear enough to warrant a respin. I'm happy to discuss it again in meta/ if you wish to.

Exactly. You see what happens when one of the discussion threads isn't on the main page; people make new threads instead. Concentrating 3000 posts of technical help and expertise into one thread is far better than having 1500 separate threads per product which helps no one.

What SFards is doing is a competition and was treated the same as all others before it. And before the shill accounts / bick say it, no I didn't report the thread, and I don't know if CK responded to a report or actioned it organically.

Quote from: Bicknellski on May 12, 2015, 03:07:30 AM

I see a complete first page of Hardware dedicated to 1 fabricator support questions (Mining Support).

How does that look any different to mining support? If we don't actively push resources under their noses, people are going to post where they think its best to, not where we want them to. And that goes back to concentrated support threads being required in hardware if you don't want it to become a shitstorm of questions.

Quote from: Bicknellski on May 12, 2015, 03:07:30 AM

Customers reviews are also off topic

How are customer reviews... of hardware... off topic to hardware? Of course spamming 20x reviews on the same product for visibility is not constructive and should be hyper-linked from one thread, that's not being debated. And lets not dance around the issue, you're just trying to attack me again. You've already got 3 threads (including 1 self moderated) dedicated to that Roll Eyes

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