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Latest post 12/14/2008 09:12 AM by Davet50. 4 replies.
 
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Can all the XPS stickies be remove from this front page?

Hello Dell,

Since you have decided not to simply add an XPS sub-group to the desktop and laptop support forums ...

Can you please remove the stickies from the first page here? I am sure that most people coming here for desktop support do not care about your stickies, and are blocked from reading all but a few questions on the first page. Move them over to the new 'XPS group' and leave one message her to point the way.


The lack of foresight in planning this support forum upgrade is only being made worse by these kinds of impromptu patches. No


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Re: Can all the XPS stickies be remove from this front page?

I agree with you Darrell

Perhaps they could just leave the Post i made about the XPS Club as a sticky so that will point XPS owners to the club for posting.


 

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Re: Can all the XPS stickies be remove from this front page?

Bump to top, and to add further information.

The "...first page here?" refers to the first "General Hardware" page where someone could start a thread, with a 'Start a new thread' link on the page. I understand the need for some stickies on the main heading desktop page. But like I said before, once you get into the "General Hardware" forum itself, there are only three open slots to list new or updated threads since the rest of the slots are being used up by IMHO unneeded stickies.


I know that FAQs can be important, but I feel that they need to be better managed as to not interfere with customers asking or answering questions. Some have mentioned that even though a 'Start a new thread' link was shown on the page, they thought that it meant to add a new FAQ, Or that there are no new posts since the stickies are listed first on the page and have not changed position.


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Re: Can all the XPS stickies be remove from this front page?

I agree. I noted this on the VIP forum a while back when I suggested there be a separate XPS section, like there was in the old forum.

I wonder how many actually read the FAQ's anyway. 

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Re: Can all the XPS stickies be remove from this front page?

Actually i dont think this will happen anytime soon. Here's why. Remeber in a discussion group you cannot have stickies nor can you have accepted solutions. I posted a message to Chris M about that and the answer was that they will not be posted in teh XPS group but they will be copied over to here.  Not a very productive method to me.

Dell needs to do major overhall of this whole fourm and go back to the way the old fourm was broken out. This combining of sections into one or two may be easier for the Mods to work but it is totally un user friendly. But here again Ideas like this seem to fall on deaf ears.


 

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320 Raptop&300Gb Serial ATA Hard Drives
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X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty pro PCIe Sound Card


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