Suggestion: General Everyday Guides/Tips

[Cello]

This is something i've seen on various forums before and I wouldn't mind seeing it here as somewhat of a treat for us experienced in a certain field/devoted to writing and helpful to the rest who are dying to learn something.

A General Guides/Tips section for basically everyday tasks, hobbies, etc etc. Completely unrelated to hacking, of course.
I suppose it could fall under the creative discussion section.

A section for guides on just basically anything and everything. Guitar lessons, photoshop lessons, HTTP coding lessons, cooking lessons, knitting lessons, etc etc.
And maybe have a sticky thread for suggestions on things to be written, too.

I know it's kind of an off-the-wall random suggestion, but I think it would be an interesting and colorful area for those looking to pick up something new, and fun for those willing to teach others or show everyone what you have a knack for.

I thought it sounded like fun, anyways.

 

[Platinum Lucario]

This is something i've seen on various forums before and I wouldn't mind seeing it here as somewhat of a treat for us experienced in a certain field/devoted to writing and helpful to the rest who are dying to learn something.

A General Guides/Tips section for basically everyday tasks, hobbies, etc etc. Completely unrelated to hacking, of course.
I suppose it could fall under the creative discussion section.

A section for guides on just basically anything and everything. Guitar lessons, photoshop lessons, HTTP coding lessons, cooking lessons, knitting lessons, etc etc.
And maybe have a sticky thread for suggestions on things to be written, too.

I know it's kind of an off-the-wall random suggestion, but I think it would be an interesting and colorful area for those looking to pick up something new, and fun for those willing to teach others or show everyone what you have a knack for.

I thought it sounded like fun, anyways.

OK, well there is many reasons why we don't need this, not to be mean or anything, but here's the reasons why:

1. There is already a guide for how to use PokéCommunity, check the FAQs by clicking here.
   
2. You can check the stickied threads in the different forums.
   
3. There are document threads made on how to use them.

I hope this information has helped you. ^^

 

[Cello]

OK, well there is many reasons why we don't need this, not to be mean or anything, but here's the reasons why:

1. There is already a guide for how to use PokéCommunity, check the FAQs by clicking here.
   
2. You can check the stickied threads in the different forums.
   
3. There are document threads made on how to use them.

I hope this information has helped you. ^^

No it didn't actually, ha.
That sounded like something I would expect to hear from an auto-response email bot to be honest.
Perhaps you misunderstood or just didn't read altogether.

By no means do I need any help learning how to use PokeCommunity.

This is a suggestion for a subforum on tips/guides written by users who wish to share their knowledge to the members who want to learn.
These guides or guide series written generally consist of a talent they wish to share with others who are interested, be it cooking, web coding, music, film, whatever.

I appreciate you trying to understand, nonetheless.

 

[Platinum Lucario]

I think I must've rushed my post, I must appologize for that. And I must appologize for not reading the whole post until now. At least I've learned my lession of posting before everyone else does, I know... it was very stupid of me to do that. x.x

Anyways... hm... guides on how to do things that are not relating to ROM Hacking stuff. Hm... like life skills or something? I wonder if PokéCommunity really does have something like that? I guess I haven't read any of the other forums other than Emulation, Community Questions & Feedback, and a few others. I'd say it would be helpful to people who wish to learn how to do things that they really would like to do in life. But then again, does the Computers & Technology section have PhotoShop lessio...
Oh nevermind, it doesn't. Or maybe it's because I didn't look hard enough in the search threads funtion? So it seems as if I wasn't able to find such things. Hm... I wonder if there's a guide on how to use Visual Studio to creating programs to edit files and read them? *checks the Computers & Technology section again* Looks to me like I can't find a guide for that either, I could only find a few help threads regarding on those programs in there. I guess that leaves me with one option... which is to support this idea!

Like I would also like to learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio so that I can create programs that will be able to edit files and view them. Like for reading a ROM or something so it could become a map editor or something. Prahaps I'm not looking hard enough, but yeah... if there was a forum on having those guides... then I'd sure be able to learn how. And ohhh yes, it sure would be so helpful! So yeah, I thought I may as well support this idea before I get to sleep, since it's already 5:42 AM here.

Again though... I do appologize for not reading the first post carefully, after all... humans never stop learning. And of course... I do learn new things everyday... like everyone else does. I would be more than happy to see a guide on creating a tool for editing ROMs and stuff.

 

[Melody]

Honestly I can see this being a really GOOD idea as a sub-forum to OC initially. Now why a Sub to OC? Because OC itself likes to lend itself to debate/discussion threads...and the guides would be spammed by pointless discussion if they were expected to build up in volume the normal way: through having so many threads of that type that the staff can't ignore it's need for a subforum.

The guides would not survive in the atmosphere that OC gives off...they do need their own section, possibly even going as far as requiring moderator approval before being posted, to ensure top quality guides are being posted, and NOTHING unsavory makes it into our collection of miscellaneous guides. Really there aren't any other forums suited for guides not strictly related to or suited for any other subforum on PC.

Now I know the logical answer to this is the all-too-typical "Just ****ing Google It"...This is not always the answer, no matter how much we wish it were quite that simple. Wouldn't it just be nice to be able to have somewhere to check to see if research has already been conducted on the same topic? Even if the guide in question is nothing more than a paraphrased copypasta with links to the source page and citations in proper order....it would indeed serve a higher purpose and help to deter people from going into OC and joining in on discussions while grossly under-informed. What I am implying by this is that guides on things like religions and how a person's sexuality is usually determined would be useful as citation material...further research would not need to be done, and the members of PC who enjoy OC would be more informed if they so chose to utilize this resource. Trolls would have even less reason than they do now, to inflame discussions...and there might be fewer people who post extremely slanted things in argument to threads, thus becoming either trolls themselves, or large stationary targets for trolls (or perfectly sane people who are offended by that viewpoint) to flame.

Now of course, we would definitely need to ensure that for sensitive topics, that all guides are written with as much neutrality as possible, but as I said...that's a simple matter of moderator approval for such guides.

The thread for each individual guide would harbor it's own discussion until it dies, meaning month old threads are closed to prevent any thread revival.

 

[Spinor]

Well, I guess this would probably be a pretty good idea. I never really thought of having something like that, but it'd really be a convenient thing.

What I think, however, is that probably half of the guides would be technology related. And the other half not many people are going to give mind. So maybe just a technology orientated kind of Guide/Tips forum. But of course, I may be wrong on how many people will want to find something other than tech stuff. Maybe both kinds of sub-forums can be implemented.

Either way, I'd be in full support of something like this.

 

[ANARCHit3cht]

I give 75% support of this.

It would be fantastic to see all the different "Life-tips guides." There are many good reasons that are already stated.

I am opposed to this because of a few reasons. People will have disagreements about the guides, which could learn to flamewars and etc. Also, we couldn't just let in any rubbish guide, which would mean that it would have to be moderated. We also can't have thirty guides on "Playing Guitar" which would lead people to get all pissy when they can't state their opinion.

:/ I would love to see this, but only if it could be implemented in a fair way.

 

[Cello]

Well, I guess this would probably be a pretty good idea. I never really thought of having something like that, but it'd really be a convenient thing.

What I think, however, is that probably half of the guides would be technology related. And the other half not many people are going to give mind. So maybe just a technology orientated kind of Guide/Tips forum. But of course, I may be wrong on how many people will want to find something other than tech stuff. Maybe both kinds of sub-forums can be implemented.

Either way, I'd be in full support of something like this.

I do think there are going to be a lot of technology-related entries. However, I also feel that we have a lot of very talented people roaming around this forum who would be willing to share their knowledge of their talent with everyone else who roams the forum, wether it require the use of technology or not.

I myself would actually be interested in posting a guide on the creative process of game development, being a student in game art/design. It is a heavy technologic field, but it doesn't always have to be when it comes to sitting down in front of the drawing board.

But even with all that being said, technology is used for everything these days. :P
Art (Photoshop), writing(Microsoft Word?), music (FL Studio), film(Final Cut, After Effects), animation (Flash), bahhh (bahhh).

I give 75% support of this.

It would be fantastic to see all the different "Life-tips guides." There are many good reasons that are already stated.

I am opposed to this because of a few reasons. People will have disagreements about the guides, which could learn to flamewars and etc. Also, we couldn't just let in any rubbish guide, which would mean that it would have to be moderated. We also can't have thirty guides on "Playing Guitar" which would lead people to get all pissy when they can't state their opinion.

:/ I would love to see this, but only if it could be implemented in a fair way.

I see where you're coming from. It may would leave quite a few people with duplicate guides a bit competitive towards one another, but when we look at an already existing guide section to this forum (in the hacking section) there are actually duplicate guides on things like mapping/tile insertion/other methods.

It's just a matter of refining your guide to be unique in it's own way.

The only thing I would see posing a problem is newbies posting "help" topics, be it that they are unrelated or just spam altogether, which is why I do believe the forum would definitely need to be moderated. That or have moderators approve threads before having them posted on a very regular basis.

 

[countryemo]

I see this is a great idea
Some Guides could fit in other and get lost.. but a place to put them all? Magic!
Plus I might see some cooking recipe's ect. cooking up. xD <- we got nowhere. I think.

You have my support, we need something like this, heck most of us is in out teen/adult years (O_O, wait this yeah thats right) so we gotta learn life stuff! :D

 

[Ho-Oh]

I actually like this idea - but only if it's less Internet based, because I think that tutorials for certain things relating to technology, etc, would go into the necessary forums already (and maybe have a sticky in the forum linking all the major computer/technology type guides?)

But as for everything else, general things (like cooking was mentioned)? That could actually be pretty helpful - but I agree that the forum should be moderated, though. And, if possible, to allow no replies to the guides. That may sound pointless at first, but think about it. If all the replies are "wow this guide is good I'm going to use it", then it's just spam (either that or turn off postcount in that forum). Plus, adbots would really enjoy it, considering a lot of them do tend to say "thank you for this guide!! really helped", or something along those lines, which makes it harder to detect adbots. :x

...either way, just my thoughts on it. The idea sounds nice, but also sounds hard to put in place, imo. Plus I'm not sure whether people would be willing to post guides due to fear of what people would think, general uninterest, etc (and there might be stealing other people's guides somewhere else online and claiming it to be yours, unless there's a sticky for links to Internet-based guides too, but that sort of defeats the purpose of PC hosting one).

 

[Cello]

I actually like this idea - but only if it's less Internet based, because I think that tutorials for certain things relating to technology, etc, would go into the necessary forums already (and maybe have a sticky in the forum linking all the major computer/technology type guides?)

But as for everything else, general things (like cooking was mentioned)? That could actually be pretty helpful - but I agree that the forum should be moderated, though. And, if possible, to allow no replies to the guides. That may sound pointless at first, but think about it. If all the replies are "wow this guide is good I'm going to use it", then it's just spam (either that or turn off postcount in that forum). Plus, adbots would really enjoy it, considering a lot of them do tend to say "thank you for this guide!! really helped", or something along those lines, which makes it harder to detect adbots. :x

...either way, just my thoughts on it. The idea sounds nice, but also sounds hard to put in place, imo. Plus I'm not sure whether people would be willing to post guides due to fear of what people would think, general uninterest, etc (and there might be stealing other people's guides somewhere else online and claiming it to be yours, unless there's a sticky for links to Internet-based guides too, but that sort of defeats the purpose of PC hosting one).

I understand what you mean by the short sentence response spam, but I feel that if the ability to respond to these threads were cut off, it would make the author feel as if what they just wrote was useless.
They wouldn't know whether or not their guide actually helped anybody, if they need to improve their guide, or see the end results by getting people to perhaps post what they were able to accomplish by following the guides.

And although the readers have the ability to contact the author, it would be more of a lack of convenience not being able to post in the topic itself.

Looking at the hacking guides section, all seems to be pretty well moderated. The spam and small stuff is deleted while the topic-related posts remain. I know I keep referring to that section, but I can't help it, ha ha.

As for the ad-bots, I don't know much about that. So i'll leave that up to you guys. :D

 

[ANARCHit3cht]

I actually like this idea - but only if it's less Internet based, because I think that tutorials for certain things relating to technology, etc, would go into the necessary forums already (and maybe have a sticky in the forum linking all the major computer/technology type guides?)

But as for everything else, general things (like cooking was mentioned)? That could actually be pretty helpful - but I agree that the forum should be moderated, though. And, if possible, to allow no replies to the guides. That may sound pointless at first, but think about it. If all the replies are "wow this guide is good I'm going to use it", then it's just spam (either that or turn off postcount in that forum). Plus, adbots would really enjoy it, considering a lot of them do tend to say "thank you for this guide!! really helped", or something along those lines, which makes it harder to detect adbots. :x

...either way, just my thoughts on it. The idea sounds nice, but also sounds hard to put in place, imo. Plus I'm not sure whether people would be willing to post guides due to fear of what people would think, general uninterest, etc (and there might be stealing other people's guides somewhere else online and claiming it to be yours, unless there's a sticky for links to Internet-based guides too, but that sort of defeats the purpose of PC hosting one).

Unless they paraphrased the guide, or morphed nearly to all their own words, you could just google it, and the article/guide would pop-up. But, if they did the aforementioned, it would be, more or less, their own guide.

Also, replies could be constructive. Like:

I like how you prepare you soup, but I find that if you add a tsp more of pepper, and a dash of vinegar, it gives more of a distinct flavor.

EDIT:
Oh, and I agree with the less technology/internet based, as those could be placed in their appropriate section.

 

[o0PinkSquid0o]

I'd LOVE this, specially if there was a 'how to' on cooking :D I can't cook for **** and everyone could share their recipes or any tips they have!! I can never get sauces thick enough :( someone teach me

 

[digi-kun]

mmmm...I swear we already had a forum dedicated to general guides, but I guess it was removed or something. Seeing as some of the '05/'06 members don't remember it [Pachy, Nica, AK47], I guess that means it was killed off a looong time ago...dunno why though, could have been lack activity or something since most people didn't want to actually write up the guides or something? dunno.

 

[Nick]

I like this idea, but I feel technology related how-to threads should belong in their designated forum, Computers & Technology. I don't believe this should be a sub-forum for Other Chat, since Other Voting Polls is kind of like a mini-OC forum on it's own and that has it's own dedicated forum, but I do agree that this should be a sub-forum. I guess it being in OC is the most fitting place for it to go... Life & Recreation would be a nice forum title for it. This could be a forum that allows general discussion for hobbies as well. We don't really have a place for that.

Any ideas on a forum description?

 

[Cello]

I like this idea, but I feel technology related how-to threads should belong in their designated forum, Computers & Technology. I don't believe this should be a sub-forum for Other Chat, since Other Voting Polls is kind of like a mini-OC forum on it's own and that has it's own dedicated forum, but I do agree that this should be a sub-forum. I guess it being in OC is the most fitting place for it to go... Life & Recreation would be a nice forum title for it. This could be a forum that allows general discussion for hobbies as well. We don't really have a place for that.

Any ideas on a forum description?

Hmm, maybe:
A section dedicated to general guides and tips written by members, for members. Topics include cooking, music, art, to even social lessons, and everything in-between. Technology related guides belong in Computers & Technology.

Feel free to refine it. I just woke up, ha ha.

 

[Nick]

*shrug* This would be an off-topic forum. We already have a forum for music; Other & Japanese Entertainment, and art; Art Gallery.

This would be the place to go if it doesn't belong in a forum already existing, I feel.

 

[Ho-Oh]

mmmm...I swear we already had a forum dedicated to general guides, but I guess it was removed or something. Seeing as some of the '05/'06 members don't remember it [Pachy, Nica, AK47], I guess that means it was killed off a looong time ago...dunno why though, could have been lack activity or something since most people didn't want to actually write up the guides or something? dunno.

Technical Institute Library. I was going to mention it, but after looking through the remainder of the backup, there wasn't much notable.

A section dedicated to general guides and tips written by members, for members. Show off your talents, as well as social lessons, and everything in-between. Technology related guides belong in Computers & Technology.

^ better?

 

[Nick]

Hmm... looking at the Technical Institute backups, it seems they allowed any type of how-to to really be posted here, regardless of if there was a forum where it would typically belong or not. That to me is the biggest concern, since it could take a lot of activity away from quite a few forums in the process and there'd be an unintentional blurry line for where something belongs.

 

[Deleted member 143209]

Couldn't these guides fit in their respective sections? I mean, I've made one on how to read music, I believe it was posted in Other Entertainment, and what's stopping a member posting a guide on how to play guitar in the same section? I wouldn't have an issue with it. If people were keen on making guides, then there would have been more attempts to make them. Photoshop lessons could go in G&P, coding lessons in Webmasters Discussion (if they're web based obviously), knitting in Life the Universe and Everything (possibly), cooking in Other Entertainment (cooking shows are pretty popular so I'd accept them).

I'd like to see more guides to be honest, I think it would be totally cool, but if there's a demand for it, I think we could possibly stretch another sub forum in Other Chat/Other Entertainment for every day guides, if we were to add a section that is. Other wise, there's sections all over PC in which these can fit.