Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150423195945/@comment-1738746-20150507100951

AzuraKnight wrote: As i tried to point out above a lot of people don't look around first (not even at the wiki pages) and the forum has no search function or even a way to skip to a page number. (Hmm I don't know why I only just got a notification for this thread now...) It was never really my idea to have a search function or the likes. It was just to have a board for all problems, solved or unsolved, and people can sift through that. It's highly likely that people don't bother looking around now because it's a pain in the butt to scour through heaps of Skyrim chatting topics just to spot the occasion help topic- even I would give up 6 pages in (which would probably have yielded me what, less than 10 help topics?).

If the forum had a search function, this wouldn't be too big of an issue. But considering it doesn't, and the volume of traffic in the Skyrim board is INSANE, it seems sensible to lump all the "help me" topics in one place so at a glance of topic names, people can skim read through more pages and more topics and possibly find what they're about to ask for. Not only does that help you remove some traffic from an already-heavy board, but for people looking to help others by answering their questions, gives them a place to actually go to and means people are more likely to answer other's questions rather than a staff member having to do it most of the time.

I hadn't realised the idea was so popular with people (saw it got mentioned in another thread haha), I'll make a CT so people can discuss it there rather than put this CT off-topic :) [Link here]