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From: Red Cardinal
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:53:24 -0000
Local: Sat, Jan 20 2007 7:53 am
Subject: Re: About this group's guidelines, rules, etc. -- your feedback wanted!
Adam Lasnik wrote: Adam, I believe you've seen my thoughts dotted about the place :) But > What I think we're going to go with is, generally, two pinned posts per > section: > 1) Guidelines about participation in the group. > 2) A quick set of links to answers for commonly asked questions. here are some nuts & bolts observations: 1. Ask new posters to place their URL in the POST, as opposed to just their profile. Time is money, and I don't have the time to go looking in someone's profile for an URL. 2. Commonly asked questions - will this be 'official' or links to previous threads? I'm sure you guys can crunch the group to figure out what the most frequent issues are, and I would suggest these are covered in easy to understand terms. 3. I have suggested previously additional fora for more technical and low-level stuff that comes up from time to time. 4. A clear method for posters to elicit a response from Google - in instances where there is a large number of posters in one thread seeking a response from Google you should have some mechanism for us to flag our concern (something like the report feature?). (Issues like the cloaking threads come to mind, and I think leaving such issues without even an acknowledgement loses quite some goodwill here in the group). > - Signatures? Love 'em? Hate 'em? 1 line? 4 lines? Leave them out - currently there is no issue, and people generally respond here out of the kindness of their hearts IMO. Introduce signatures and the altruism is diluted. Of that I am 100% sure. > - Would you like to see more site-specific queries? More general What do you mean? Initiated by Google? > Webmaster discussions as they relate to Google? > P.S. -- If you haven't already done so, take a moment to check out our 2 steps forward, one step back in my view - as much as I dislike this > new Groups interface: > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help interface, I find the beta group lacking. Cant elaborate right now but will try to post some thoughts at some stage. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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