Why not have reader submitted QOTDs?

There, post that one! Nah, but seriously, I can't imagine Tuan can think of questions forever, but at the same time, if someone in the community has a truly insiteful and politically rousing question, it might be interesting to see the opinions of others.

On the other hand, we don't want 365 days of "What do you think of my build (posting newegg order TONIGHT!)?"

Sounds like a lot of extra work for you guys . . .

But yes, I'm totally in favor of the idea. Hats off to you all for your creativity and production, but there's a ton of untapped potential within the readers who browse here every day. I say help them get involved with the site as much as possible, and everyone will be better off for it.

No. I want the crew at Toms. IE Jane, to conjur up their own ideas independent of the desires of her audience.

Jane, do you actually WANT to go through the eons and eons of useless interweb drivel? Do you WANT to sit in front of your computer reading the QOTD marked "I can haz moar pancakez"?

DO YOU WANT TO HAVE YOUR KEYBOARD BROKEN BY THE DROOL COMING FROM YOUR MOUTH AS YOU READ THE MINDLESS ARTICLES?!?!

DO YOU!?!

ok ok joking aside..

Like burnley14 said it sounds like alot of extra work for you guys, but if you pulled it off it would be pretty cool to say the least.

Sure. Just pick one that isn't stupid.

And if QOTD's get to be too much, just make QOTWeek. There's only so much we can discuss.

Why not? There is always a great discussion after a QOTD, nothing wrong with a few more. Just make sure they're well moderated, and have to pass through you folks in charge of the place first.

If someone starts an interesting poll or posts and interesting topic for discussion in the forums, you could always put a link to it on the home page. Since this happens so infrequently, I see no reason to devote a lot of development changes to THG for it.

I foresee tremendous issues with reader submitted QOTD. We are all going to speak and ante up our $0.02 with the format you currently use (point proven) and most of those replies are not worth $0.02. (proven again)
Save us all the embarrassment and nix the idea now before it goes to far.

Yes, if a reader can come up with a worthy QOTD, why not go with it.

I think it sounds great. IMO the best approach would be to have an admin or moderator select a question that is appropriate and preferably something that would provoke plenty of interesting discussion.

Um, isn't that just a forum for one topic? Why not make a "QOTD" forum section and set the post number limit for topic starters to 2,000 or something? I think that having user-generated content would reduce Tom's credibility. We need a place where we can turn to for accurate and unbiased reviews and such. Right now I can go to my buddies and say "I found these results on Tom's" and they will take it. If we start seeing a bunch of user-generated stuff, the next time I say that they will laugh and I will be forced to kill myself. Is that what you want?

YES. Just have a "Suggestion Question" thread in the forum. Go go go go

I don't see why not, or have a moderator choose a particularly worthy forum thread (if found) to make into the QOTD.

I think the QOTD is a good idea. Let people submit them and TH staff can chuck out the useless junk and post the questions.

yes there is a forum for such things, but the QOTD is easier to find as its on the main page - and I seldom visit the forums.

why not make one day per week user day. Pick a question, and let some of the more experienced and non biased forum people take a crack at the answer. I have been a tom's member since prior to 2000, and I would be happy to volunteer my time to help answer some pre screened questions.

I have a question, not sure it would be considered of the Day.

Will we ever see Ben and Rob do Second Take again on Tom's Games in all it's Glory?

Man I miss those guys. What were the owners of THG thinking?

I wouldn't mind user submitted questions...


Well.. Just so long as it isn't "ZOMG, my (32 bit) Windows doesn't read all 4GB of my RAM" serveral times a day, like on the forums.

The questions would be moderated. We'd probably end up assigning an email address for you to mail suggestions to. We would never just let you guys have at it... As much as we trust you, the internet is full of very, very boring people and no one wants to be subjected to that.

We'd also be afraid people would use it to ask computer related questions specific to them like, "My cat peed on my keyboard, how do I dry it out?"

Anywho, I'll keep you guys posted and let you know when we decide anything.

Yes

I would like to see more actual polls

Sure - but again, I would never call QOTD "news" and yet it appears here. Also, with non-threaded and non-editable responses, it definitely doesn't belong here. I'm all for user-generated content in the hopes to increase the draw of your site and keep your rankings up, but how about yo make a dedicated section for that. (What? They have a forum here... huh.)

It's really not even debatable.

Questions and polls go unanswered all the time because they are dumb or boring. The fact that the question was asked doesn't harm a soul, including TH.

But yes, you have to moderate questions that are just baiting flame wars. Like "Which is better.... AMD/Nvidia or Intel/ATI" and such.

QOTDs should not result in more than 3 black eyes per 50 responses.

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I could not imagine the overwhelming amount of requests you guys would get that could have been covered a month or two months or even a year ago in an article, not to mention maybe in the forums. This doesn't sound feasible for the guys at tom's hardware.