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An official questions forum! When people have a quick question, they can ask it in this forum! A lot of the fourms' space is filled with people asking a quick question about something, like what are the Halo books, where can I buy Marathon, who are the mods, etc... What we need is a forum where people can ask their quick questions. Either that, or the mods could lock all these topics with a link to Google. Some examples of these topics are here, here,
here, and here. They are all on the front page of the Underground. After a while, an FAQ would be easy.

  • 09.03.2004 1:41 PM PDT
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On the forum slection page it should be big like Mombasa and Underground with something along the lines of 'Ask your qustions for quick answers' underneath.

  • 09.03.2004 1:52 PM PDT
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I like that idea...it would be helpful, and would also help to solve the issues new people can face (Yellow Banshee, for example), as well as point out the rules. If the first time they clicked 'forums' took them to this page, then I think a whole host of problems would be solved. It might seem a lot, but Bungie have done this much; why not more?

  • 09.03.2004 1:55 PM PDT
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Similarly, if people had to read the rules there would be alot less problems around here. And their excuse for spamming with the same questions is becuase thers no search function. So basically we have 3 options;
-Questions Forum )or even weekly update FAQ about Halo2 theories, problems with forums etc)
-Search Function
-Spam

Personally I would prefer to exclude the 3rd option, but as it is, the mods (or Achronos) seem to think a search functon is bothersome and hard to do. So it seems we're pulled between question/FAQ forum or spam... I vote Forum!!!

  • 09.03.2004 6:26 PM PDT
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I wonder how many new comers actually read The Rules and everything. By the looks of things, it doesn't seem like much do.

  • 09.03.2004 8:45 PM PDT

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We could also (and by we, I mean all the senior members here) make an official chapter for new guys. We could call it Newb World! Oh, that's right, we already tried that. new guys didn't like the name.

Seriously, if we had a chapter like that (with a better name) and had a link on the side of the forums, we'd get a lot less questions. I mean, with the new hotness, Bungie could side link to dozens of the best chapters. A chapter just for new guys to post some stuff on their first days might be worth it.

  • 09.03.2004 10:47 PM PDT

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Forum Tutorials --- WATCH THEM AND LEARN

I think, that it wouldn't help much. Take a second here. Even though their are threads with titles such as, Don't Spam, Post Halo 2 stuff in New Mombasa, and various other commands that are told through the title of a thread, It still doesn't stop anything. I still see about 10 halo 2 topics in this forum a day, and about another 20 in the underground. So Making a questions forum, mite detur some of the threads, but their will still be quite a large percentage of people who won't/can't read, and will post questions in any forum they like. Generally, I don't think it's neccessary. Only another place spammers can do their work I see it as.

  • 09.03.2004 11:16 PM PDT
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We could also (and by we, I mean all the senior members here) make an official chapter for new guys. We could call it Newb World! Oh, that's right, we already tried that. new guys didn't like the name.

Seriously, if we had a chapter like that (with a better name) and had a link on the side of the forums, we'd get a lot less questions. I mean, with the new hotness, Bungie could side link to dozens of the best chapters. A chapter just for new guys to post some stuff on their first days might be worth it.


How would you classify a senior member? Great idea and all, a transfer of stuff from Newb World (and addition of new material) would be very useful.

  • 09.04.2004 12:26 AM PDT
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if people do have a question they are supposed to ask it in the flood. not that you would get any good answers there. But there is technically a place to ask your question. I agree with you that we need a questionaire forum

  • 09.04.2004 12:43 PM PDT
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Patience, and Bungie will provide...if they feel a need.

  • 09.04.2004 1:10 PM PDT