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I'd like to do a FAQs thread, but have a lot of things on my priority list and I'm not sure I would be able to spend the time to do it justice.

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I have thought of doing a FAQs thread (and also believe I suggested to another DU'er that they do one when the switch to DU3 was made). That was back when we still had the Help & Meta-discussion forum. I created an unofficial HTML tag thread based on the Admin's DU2 table and people started asking and answering questions in that thread. When the Welcome & Help forum was created (now called Community Help) I reposted the HTML tags opening post (which is pinned to the top of the forum listings). There are some useful things in that thread but it doesn't cover a lot of basic "where to find stuff on the site" kind of questions - I think many of those discussions were found in the (now inaccessible) Help & Meta-discussion forum in its early days as everyone was finding their way around the software changes.

I used to spend a lot more time here than I typically do now. A good FAQs thread would be beneficial (we agree on that), but I don't know when I would have the time (and energy) to do it satisfactorily. I think searching the Community Help forum is probably the best bet to getting answers to commonly asked questions. If you limit a Google search to DU and use the full forum name in quotes in addition to the keyword(s) concerning the topic you're interested in, you should hopefully get some results that will help. Like this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ademocraticunderground.com+%22Community+Help+%28Forum%29%22+signature

You could even add my username in quotes to the search to get threads where I have chimed in. I used to tell people to send me a "DU Mail" message and I'd answer it within a few days, but sometimes I don't check in for a while now. I'll still answer, but it may take a week or two (or more). Typically those conversations would be more suited to HTML/CSS type questions.

There are a lot of smart people here at DU - I'd say you should usually be able to get an answer in the Community Help forum if you post a thread and ask follow up questions if the answers seem unclear or incomplete. And I will add doing a FAQs thread on my to do list - but it probably won't happen any time soon.

[font style="font-variant:small-caps;"]-Make7[/font]