I think the quality of posts has also helped kill some of the traffic here. I blame the contests.
Other then being busy I don't want to sift through the sea of spam threads and people that can't use a search engine threads. I'd like to see a return of people with
real questions again.
Well there can be a balance also. Like if something is on the front page, "double posting" doesn't make much sense; but if something is buried back 5 years of posts one probably wouldn't go through all of them sorta thing... On a search there can also be searches and searches. By that, I mean for instance look at some question on spec that might come up for a char class/build in WoW which one doesn't normally play.
Now when googling it (oh this can be fun sometimes :lol: ), one can many times get many opinions from various talking heads that don't always seem familiar with what they're talking about :rofl These can be the same sort who argue on and on in trade chat about "who the n00b is"... I once had someone ask me a question about ret palies (something I hadn't really played since 2006), so I searched online and got about 3 or 4 different opinions on what their hit cap is; as people kept saying "you're wrong, I'm right, yadda, yadda" lol I finally told the person without actually sitting down and getting some first hand experience again playing their class and build I couldn't even begin to say who they should believe
Beyond that, one could get posts where someone jumps all over someone else for a 3 year old post with a "you're wrong you nub ****, in TBC it's this way"; when what the person posted was perfectly correct
in vanilla and at the time they posted it. It isn't their fault if Blizzard changed some stuff years after they posted, and someone else went to dig it up
A lot of times when arguments can go that way, one almost has to sit down and play with whatever (be it a game, system, whatever) and see what pans out.
On the other hand, I have from time to time run into a real dozy of a situation with some piece of software; which in the end came down to "oh there's a bug here; really need the developers for this one". That was for instance a project in my final semester with the degree I got in computer networking. What I had was 2 Linux systems, one running a honey pot, the other various hacker and exploitation software meant to test the honey pot. (This was all in a closed network, so there really wasn't anything getting to the Internet at large; but yes I was using "that software" which shall remain unmentioned.)
In any case, when building up one of the boxes, one of the software required a Linux library (built off other libraries); which in the end ran into certain problems. And as far as I got Googling is "this is a known bug, but no software fix has yet been implemented". I was stumped and had to report for the project that's where things stood, and test what I could. This said, I got the idea for all this off what some are doing when they for instance wanted to protect computer systems housing DoD type research and development; and went to replicate some of that, essentially a honey net for purposes of catching would be intruders and gathering information on their attacks to a system setup to catch them with; and learn who they are, and how they are hacking. If I was working "out in the field" with people who do this sorta stuff for real; vs. as a college project, there might have been some who had an idea how to work around some of that, and hell how it could have been made better :lol: