Yep, I vote for benchies and news! But I votes for something else too
Also some consolidation of other topics might be indicated. Some people are posting in other topic areas because few people go to what their looking for information on.
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That was me. I guess I should have qualified [sad]. I was thinking along the lines of consolidating. Something like
1) printers and scanners
2) CD/DVD readers and writers.
3) Multimedia - TV/Video/Sound/Speakers
I don't know, really... but wouldn't a "Benchmarks" section be way too generic? I mean, all discussions on HDD, CPU, vid card, chipsets, and so on would converge to this topic. And those interested can always go to each section and ask, and they'll mostly get info they're interested in, about the hardware they're interested in... So I don't think that a benchmarking topic is really necessary... Sorry if I'm being pedantic or anything, anyway...
News might be interesting... but the problem is that if discussions arise from a thread in "news", then that would no longer be news... oh, well, who knows... maybe my mind is closed to new ideas today... I think I'm just tired, anyway...
Mostly, I never thought another topic was needed, until I wanted to ask something programming-related. Under software, there is no "programming" section - just finished OS's and such... maybe a programming section?... I had to ask the damned question in the CPU section... The software section even has a distributed computing topic, but no programming topic!...
I wanna see more posts about sex, other nasty subjects, spam and other useless topics..........wait a minute.....the other forum and the polls forums are aleady filled with that stuff.......what am i thinking......
There seem to be a fair number of distracting posts in the major hardware sections.
What, you mean the Inquirer linking and such?
If people DO come and have in mind that the hardware forums are all about purchase/help topics, they should bug off this instant. It's about discussing, reporting news, reporting new reviews, heck linking to anything related to the hardware. Having a CPU forum strictly to help people and get purchase decisions would be the most boring crap I'd ever have to contend with and would give up checking the forum.
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The other section and poll section cover news and any non PC related topics. That's fine with me. News, politics, etc all end up in there. Sometimes it spills over. Big deal.
We could get rid of Windows NT. That's a pretty useless area.
I think it is fine... news can be discussed in the section where the news was about and a benchmark section is just rediculous.
If we need a new forum a Case, casemod and PSU forum would be nice... I already did a poll about it (results was that the majority is pro that section) and send the results to Fredi. Nothing nada... implementing news things isn't something done oftenly in this forum (if they ever did at all).
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Hmm, you are mixing topic meaning here. Topic would indeed mean kind of thread, which FallOutBoy should've named FORUMS. You're talking about topics discussed in X forum.
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Ah, I see; it seems I chose the wrong word once again. If I were to have named them FORUMS, how would I make the subject with the right wording? Forum subjects? Forum forums? Oh no, I'm confused again!
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