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the updated forum FAQ

Started by grhodes_at_work Jul 25, 2006 at 11:27 AM 1 replies 2.1k views

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Jul 25, 2006 at 11:27 AM

Folks, I have made some edits to the Forum FAQ. Mostly to correct broken links (perhaps not all of them), and fix outdated information about physics middleware and freeware. I invite you to review the FAQ. Let me know what you like, or don't like, what you'd like to see added, any mistakes or problems you find. Know that I'm not going to change the homework policy for now. Its hard to enforce exactly, and is quite subjective, but I continue to believe in the philosophy I put in there in the beginning. And it is my official choice, as forum moderator. I'd love to fill out the Technical FAQ section a bit...perhaps add good links for a few additional questions related to game development. Let me know if you have suggestions. Any suggested links will be subject to my personal review, and for technical references I will be extremely critical before posting it here. Hmmmm....one last question. Does anyone know what is up with the Open Dynamics Engine domain, www.ode.org? Its been down (I believe) for at least a couple of days. The sourceforge page still exists, but I'm wondering if Russ has given up on hosting the ODE domain.... Is everything on the Wiki @ Sourceforge now?

jjd

Jul 25, 2006 at 11:47 AM

I have a suggestion regarding the format. I think it would be better to split the points into sections and have the sections linked at the top of the page. It's a long document and I'd be surprised if anyone reads it from beginning to end. However, I think a lot of people would just look at the size of it and go *bleh*, and start posting in the forum. In particular, I think there should be a section entitled "Ways to transform a moderate moderator into a slathering, banning, censoring demon of the pit" (or equivalent) in order to highlight certains things that are not permitted but that continue to happen ad infinitum. Hopefully, that would be a little more attention grabbing.

I think it looks great content-wise though.

Thanks for doing the hard work, Graham.

grhodes_at_work

Jul 25, 2006 at 12:41 PM

jjd,

Thank you for the suggestion. I really like the idea of having a table-of-contents, linked to the items below. I will see how/if I can do that. At least the TOC will be done.

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