Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1738746-20150507104334

So this was an idea that came out of another thread, and was something I simply mentioned as part of another thing but people really seemed to like the idea so I'll post it here for people to discuss.

It might be useful to set up a Skyrim Help board, where all solved and unsolved Skyrim threads can be sent to and dealt with in just that board. The board then essentially acts like a giant unorganised FAQ; people can scroll through that to see if someone has already asked and/or have answered their question or something similar.

This should hopefully encourage more users to look around first before asking their problem too (which seems to be something that commonly happens according to comments of others) because they're not then having to sift through 5000 Skyrim chatting threads just to spot only a few "help me" threads and then just give up.

A board like this should also help alleviate the amount of posting traffic on the Skyrim board itself, which could be of use to forum mods. On top of this, having a board specifically for "help me" type topics can also help better direct users who like helping and answering the questions of others, and therefore less staff replies to topics would be needed.

I considered mostly just Skyrim for a Help board because it is the largest board by far in terms of posting traffic, but perhaps making it a 'help me' board for TES titles in general could be another idea. However, it is the specificity of the board itself that is its strong point and combining all TES titles may hinder a lot of the value this board could bring. Just some ideas to toss around :) 