Maybe an Acronym thread/sticky

[jasonlambert]

on the time-vs-effort scale its not worth doing. Not enough people would read it.

I also have a feeling that flw produced one of these back in the elitelinux days and its in the bottom of the tutorials section somewhere.

[scientica]

this one? http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...rial-5224.html

[jasonlambert]

this one? http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...rial-5224.html

Thats the one

[PeasleeR]

Google's specialized searches should be enough for anyone, even newbs.

All you have to type in google is define:acronym and it will list all known meanings.

Robert Peaslee

[drakebasher]

Google's specialized searches should be enough for anyone, even newbs.

Well it's obvious to MOST of us.

This thread seems to tie in closely with some thoughts I've had lately. It started with when I saw someone mention the Forum rules and I looked but couldn't find them. As far as I know, the only place to find them is about half-way down (in tiny letters) in the sidebar of the Forums mainpage. Now a new visitor is not likely to look at that, given that steaming pile of great information just to the left: who cares about rules when you've just hit the Mother Lode? And there's the matter of needing to tell some new members to Google and to search the Forums. And even the frequent need (sometimes passed) to point to some of the really great and extensive information elsewhere on the 'web.

So my thought was, perhaps there should be, up on the main navigation bar, along with "Home", "Linux Forums", etc, an additional link titled perhaps "How to use the Forum" or "New to LFDO" or something else obviously important and equally friendly. The link could go to any number of useful resources, starting with the Forum rules, glossary of abbreviations, all-time best links, link to tutorials main page: basically all the links for basic information including all those things the newbies keep asking.

[chosenone]

time should be the major problem, people need time to get used to these Acronyms, but whenever these words become tradition, thinks would be much easier.......

[zeeone]

I like the idea, those of us that have been here at the the forum for awhile could use to our atvantage, however it would take sometime to put it together before it would be useful. The noobies will not read it until directed to it,........ mabye. Most computer USERS, have a problem with a search engine as in, "What is it and how to use it". I know out in the real world, I will be talking about something that I have been following on the web, and many will want the web address. I always tell them just use their search engine type in this and it will give them a listing to go there. Then I get the "Deer in the headlights stare", so I start naming off search engines until something clicks.
One needs to understand, that it does not take much for most computer USERS to go into......system overload.