Tutorials and How-To's are one of the reasons I am making my ODST. Seeing other people demonstrate their techniques and expertise is helpful for everybody. The only thing that bugs me is that all the how-to's are spread out over the whole forum. Some of them are stickies and some are just out there, only reachable by searching. The sticky tutorials are in their respective forums, but they are hard to find sometimes. So my question is this:
Would it be beneficial to have a forum set apart completely for tutorials?
I'm just thinking here, so this is my personal opinion and yours will probably differ. I got thinking about this because I am frequently on a forum called 355 Nation, whenever I am having trouble with my Colorado. They have a huge sub-forum only for member tutorials, with separate categories for each aspect of the truck. It is extremely helpful, and gives me new ideas.
I think a forum under "Armor, Uniform, and Prop Making" labeled specifically for How-To's would be helpful. To make it nice and clean, members should not post directly in there. Rather post their how-to thread in a submission area for review, before it is put in the forum by a staff member. A how-to forum will also have the necessary separate categories and sub-categories, to keep tutorials on similar topics together. Categories could each be the different types of building techniques, and different aspects of each. Maybe even different how-to's for a specific armor.
So what does everybody think? Obviously I haven't done a proper benefit/risk analysis, but I'm curious if anyone else has thought about this.
Thanks
Would it be beneficial to have a forum set apart completely for tutorials?
I'm just thinking here, so this is my personal opinion and yours will probably differ. I got thinking about this because I am frequently on a forum called 355 Nation, whenever I am having trouble with my Colorado. They have a huge sub-forum only for member tutorials, with separate categories for each aspect of the truck. It is extremely helpful, and gives me new ideas.
I think a forum under "Armor, Uniform, and Prop Making" labeled specifically for How-To's would be helpful. To make it nice and clean, members should not post directly in there. Rather post their how-to thread in a submission area for review, before it is put in the forum by a staff member. A how-to forum will also have the necessary separate categories and sub-categories, to keep tutorials on similar topics together. Categories could each be the different types of building techniques, and different aspects of each. Maybe even different how-to's for a specific armor.
So what does everybody think? Obviously I haven't done a proper benefit/risk analysis, but I'm curious if anyone else has thought about this.
Thanks
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