> > > > > > > > aaahh EVERYONE is coming back

> > > > > > > bad ?? - now we can kick the newbies again !

> > > > > If you keep kicking the newbies they won't want to come anymore and you won't have anyone to kick. The idea of a forum is to help people not scare them off.

> > > > > Plasma, Have you been in touch with Will or AbsCnC lately?

> > > > no - only kicking newbies who ask stupid questions, ore questions which were already answered !

> > > and how do they search for questions?

> > It's much easier to simply keep a copy of your answer to any common question, then just paste it in as soon as another guy asks it, rather than telling them it's been asked before

> Agreed, maybe a search feature could be intergrated into the next version of the forum? what happens to all the messages that slip off the forum? are they deleted after a while? or do they have to be manually deleted? or are they undeletable?


I think Olaf has them all stored away somewhere, and he can delete them if he chooses to.

Wouldn't a FAQ be better tho? Then whenever someone asks a question which you think is in the FAQ, just tell them to look in the FAQ, and come back here if it isn't in there