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Post by W.B. »

It might be helpful if people here, who are familiar with the GI thought of a list of some of those frequent questions and sent them to the webmaster, at least so they'd have a start. To require them to read it is not possible, but maybe a link the the submission form would first take you to the FAQ, as a subtle hint. After all, it's not much fun to read the same answer to the same question. :)
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Post by Variol Farseer »

Say, that's a thought.

Do you think anybody would mind if I did a bit of sorting on the GI answers, divvying them up into categories of questions? That might be helpful in constructing a FAQ.
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BTW, don't 'divide' the answers. One answer can belong in several categories. For example, there are some answers about Elohim, and some answers about inspiration, and some answers about Elohim and Inspiration. So you need something more like an index, where answers can be indexed several ways.

And there already is a search capability, and a categories capability, in the GI now.

And, finally, a FAQ is not a way to see if the question is already answered. A FAQ is what it says, "Frequently Asked Questions". It's the Readers Digest Condensed Version of the GI.
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... did anyone notice how this post jynxed the GI. Nothing since March 30th - virtually the same day Usivious posted this.
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oops....
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HAH! I am vindicated! I am not a curse! there are new postings on SRD's GI...

Although "Usivius GI-Silencer" has a nice ring to it...

Bwa hah hah!!! :lol:
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please do not blame the recent rash of no replies from the GI on me...

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I actually think SRD (or maybe Romeo) did a bit of question-sorting. I posted a question (well, it was more of an anecdote) to the GI in, like, June, and it showed up in the GI at the end of July. Given that SRD said earlier this year that he was 240+ questions behind...I don't think he could have caught up that fast without weeding out some duplicate queries.

VF, you could PM Romeo with your ideas for making the GI more user-friendly.
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Wayfriend wrote:
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