Gmc's Forums Are Messy Options

[Bluesberry]

Hi GMC,

I've been thinking about this for a while. The facts are: GMC is an awesome community and the forums are of very much help to everyone here. And the forums are very messy. And by this I don't mean the layout or the skins - I mean the people using these forums. I think that people have very good ideas and very much things to say, but they often forget to check if somebody's asked the same thing before. And even if they do, they still post a new topic on the subject - and as a result, we have, for example, probably some 30 topics for sweeping basics (I just pulled this out of my head).

You all probably agree that this eventually leads to a situation where people get tired trying to search older topics on the subject they are asking about, since the information they are looking for is scattered all over the place - leading into even more scattering.

So how about this: we start some MAJOR topics like: 3-string sweeping shapes, Jazz phrasing, Economy picking etc. If somebody's got the guts, we could try and gather together all (or most) of the previous discussions on the subject in the opening post. Also a link to a GMC Wiki handling the subject would be great. That way it would be much easier for people to find the information they're looking for, without having to ask the same question a dozen of people have asked already.

These kinds of big topics would of course become massive eventually, so when a topic grows very big (say, more than 10 pages or so) we'll start another one: Economy picking 2 etc.

Of course that could have its problems, too, and it's kind of troublesome to get started, BUT! I think it would be the right thing to do. I believe these forums are messy, and following that kind of a method we could organize the information this place contains much more effectively. I also believe that we should encourage new forum users to read these "main" topics first, since the answer might very well be there.

So my main points: The forums are messy now, so I claim that by gathering the information needed on the many subjects we have here under some bigger major topics, we could make this place a much better place to read and write.

What do you think?

-Kristian

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