This is my opinion by a junior ipad user, mintak tolong jangan ambil hati.

Try looking into Roundtable Discussion thread. Thread such as education essential, job&careers, or others.

Try searching for actuarial science in education essential. You'll found many almost same topic created over n over again. But the mods there very good. They know most of the time those who did this is a new user. They dun directly close it. They only close topic that is about advertisemen. It might seem messy to see a lot of almost same topic, but it's attracting more people to read it and discuss in it. People love to read few pages topic that discuss on specific thing rather than reading plenty of pages topic that discuss on everything. Wheneve i see more than 50 pages topic it makes me thinking " shoot... Only 5% only might be useful to me".

Also, instead of mods directly closing the new topic created and write something like "please refer here <some 100++pages topic> , mods can just write please refer here. But don't close the topic. Let it be alive. Some kind guys might post the answer directly to that topic and attract the thread starter to the topic. It shows that we're friendly and this attitude will attract more new user to stay with lowyat.net beacause most of new user tends to do this(including me when i've just join this forum back then). The kind people replying and new posts everyday keep me eager to wait if someone reply and it show that people care about ur prob and people do read it. However, after the prob is solved, after some period of time, it'll remain quiet. Just let it be. How much problem there is for an Ipad? Again, if it happen that someone post the same prob again by creating a new topic, we can just reply "please check this thread <a topic with no more than 10 pages which directly answer his prob rather than 100 pages topic which discuss everything>. If that is the case than no prob to close the topic.

For example, we can divide apps into many categories such as games<role playing, racing, etc>, lifestyle<fitness, health, cooking, travel>, etc. While we can separate them to make it easier to discuss, why we compiled everything in one topic and discuss evrything in it. I don't want to read 20 pages talks only about gaming while the thing i've been looking(for example GPS nav apps) is somewhere in the middle of it with only 2-3 posts.

I'm a noob. So I apologise if i create any heartfeeling here.

This post has been edited by destroyer: Dec 3 2010, 04:32 AM