As a relatively-newbie I think I could make a suggestion on how to help people write better initial threads. There have been one or two occasions when I have come up with a very unexpected problem and no idea what might have caused it. I honestly wanted to include the relevant information, but I had no clue what information I should include. Perhaps if we could create and sticky a post with a quick outline of what information would be relevant people would add information.

I know, this does nothing to fix the problem of people being lazy, but it might help those of us who are just ignorant. :-)

LQ's own XavierP has written an excellent tutorial on how to use LQ as well as how to ask a question. If you have not already seen them, I'd suggest taking a few moments to read through them. They both contain a great deal of useful info

I've read the post, as I think everyone should. I just meant - maybe we should sticky a post with information like "usually the last 20-25 lines of a long error message are what we should see" and "if you are dealing with a foo problem you should provide your kernel version"

The first time I had a build error, I didn't want to just say "I got ERROR:2", but neither did I want to post 692 lines of code.

I would be willing to write said post myself, but I really don't think I'm qualified.

qualified? Can you use linux? then you're qualified.

Seriously, have a go. I'm sure it will be appreciated and useful. If anything, it will encourage those more qualified (if lazy) to improve upon your article- you would have gotten the hardest part out of the way- just starting it.

Check out http://wiki.linuxquestions.org - (the wiki) you might find it useful for your purposes.

titanium_geek

A couple of suggestions:

1. Can we have a code button as well as a quote button on the quick reply window?

2. How about a feedback link on the home page?

Hopefully these are helpful & could be a small improvement to an already fabulous site.

Cheers

I don't know if it's just my firefox, but you could improve the site by making sure that the oracle add doesn't come up over the menu options across the top under the logo! I can't click on some of them.

Rgds

This was asked before, but Jeremy said that he doesn't want to overload the quick reply box with too many controls. After all, it is meant to load faster than the full reply box and hence it's fairly basic.

You always have the contact us link at the bottom of every page:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/sendmessage.php

Plus of course this feedback forum

Yeah, the oracle add covering up the drop down menus is really annoying.

just use [ CODE ] [ /CODE ] (with out spaces- they are just there so the tag doesn't try and make a code box)




titanium_geek