This is definately something that would help immensely on pretty
much all of the fora here. Naturally, the big issue with FAQ pages
would be that it is something that would require continuous work
that Phil doesn't have at the time. This is why I originally
figured that the forum split made more sense, as it is something
that wouldn't need to be maintained - you just do it and the users
can do the rest.
If Phil is open to allowing others to assist him in maintaining
FAQs it would go a likely be possible - I'm sure that there are a
lot of people who would be willing to help. The problem is that in
the current setup it seems that Phil and his wife pretty well run
everything on their own - thus adding in authentication and
security for such a system could be a substantial task in and of
itself. Running a system where you implicitly trust all of your
staff is a lot more difficult than running a system with staff that
need variable levels of access to the system
If such a system was practical though I think it would do a lot for
these fora - the search system is considerably overtaxed and
usually doesn't work, so it is sometimes very difficult to find
information even when it is plentiful. It would be a significant
advantage to new users, veteran users and the site's servers alike
- especially at this point, where a new low-priced camera is on the
near horizon and is just about to bring many new users into our
fold
Naturally, however, this is up to Phil so he's the only one that
can really respond with the practicality of implementing something
like this. Hopefully he isn't sick of these threads and isn't just
ignoring it
