"Austin English" austinenglish@gmail.com wrote:
In my experience, the 'older' crowd prefers newsgroups, but 'younger' people prefer message boards. Similar to how more advanced users prefer CLI, but inexperienced/novices use GUI. It seems to me we're trying to help the gui type of person, and a message board would be an easier way to do this, IMHO.
It's pretty much easy to see who needs help then. And assuming that inexperienced/novices can't help themselves, and people who really can answer their questions are not going to participate on forums (because it's mostly a waste of time IMO) the answer should be clear enough. Of course, if the creation of the forum doesn't aim to really help, but just a general form of discussing everything here and there, for the sake of it...