FAQs?

brewer12345 · 05-30-2005, 11:53 AM

Dory, et al., do we have a spot for FAQs? Seems like there are recurring questions that get asked that could be answered with a series of FAQs. For example, I could easily put together a primer on life insurance and annuities for FIRE'd folks and wannabees if there was enough interest to bother.

BigMoneyJim · 05-30-2005, 12:10 PM

The problem with the previous FAQ board was that it became a catch-all for questions. A couple of FAQ ideas I recall were stickying FAQ topics if volunteers such as you wrote up a FAQ question/answer, or having a wiki page for FAQs. Or perhaps one could post a message with links to a better example of one of the FAQ threads.

Everything above except the wiki is trivial to implement in the current software. I kind of like the idea of a wiki, though...the paradigm shift tends to keep new people from editing it offtopic, and I think we have enough wiki-capable people here to maintain a nice set of FAQs and topic pointers, and the board indexes won't be cluttered with many stickies after a few months. I'll check into wiki software.

cute fuzzy bunny · 05-30-2005, 12:23 PM

You like saying 'wiki', dont you?

BigMoneyJim · 05-30-2005, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grand Banks

You like saying 'wiki', dont you?

Now that you mention it....

laurencewill · 05-30-2005, 03:37 PM

When I lived in Hawaii, I'd always buy my booze at the corner Wiki-Wiki mart....

cute fuzzy bunny · 05-30-2005, 04:00 PM

So can we simply say that if you have questions, drink booze from the wiki-wiki mart, and if you have frequent questions...

HFWR · 05-30-2005, 04:12 PM

Drink more frequently! :P

cute fuzzy bunny · 05-30-2005, 06:02 PM

ding ding ding...we have a winner. Since you could type all three words with an emoticon, clearly you dont frequently have questions

Nords · 05-30-2005, 08:49 PM

http://ulukau.org/english.php

wiki

vs. To hurry, hasten; quick, fast, swift. See alawiki.

Hele wiki: quick time, quick step.
E wiki 'oe mai lohi: hurry, don't delay.
ho'o wiki: To hurry, hasten.

laurencewill · 05-30-2005, 10:17 PM

Hey Nords, they still sell Crazy Horse out there in the Wiki Wiki marts? It was the cheapest thing they had, I think it was $2 for a 64 oz bottle. Our parties were always BYOB, but if someone was broke, we would always say, "hey, I think we could scrounge up 2 bucks for some crazy horse!"...we weren't being nice, it was just fun to watch the guy try to drink that crap just to get drunk!

sgeeeee · 05-30-2005, 11:17 PM

Wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki . . . Huh. It's okay, but it's not that great. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

sgeeeee · 05-30-2005, 11:21 PM

Do the Wiki Wiki gods wear dryer sheets and spew milk from their noses?

BigMoneyJim · 05-30-2005, 11:35 PM

Don't rush into it SG...wiki is not something to be taken lightly. wiki.

Silly silly (wiki) silly me! We don't need a wiki. With this software we can create special group and give them moderator powers to certain areas of the foum. We could make a FAQ group and let them edit FAQ posts. wiki. wiki. I'm not sure we can assigne permissions by thread, so we may have to make a FAQ board again if we follow this idea. Sounds simple enough; all I need is time now.

wiki.

EDIT: Looks like we can control permissions by board but not by topic, so we could create a FAQ board and allow certain users post and moderator edit privileges to that board. We could either create a new group and add people by invitation or just allow post and moderator edit access to everyone with more than 500 posts, 1000 posts, 100 posts, whatever. Or we could do both to give blanket FAQ making access to high posters *and* add other FAQ makers by request/invitation. What are the thoughts on this? wiki.

I'll see if other things are possible, like making a FAQ user and allowing certain people to moderate its posts...I would like that because we could have one sticky FAQ topic in each board, but I haven't figured out how to manage that yet. wiki.

Nords · 05-30-2005, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laurence

Hey Nords, they still sell Crazy Horse out there in the Wiki Wiki marts?

Yikes, I'm going to have to do some "research"... I bet it's more than $2 though!

unclemick · 05-31-2005, 06:45 AM

Ah yes

Way back when I was young - on the West coast - it was Thunderbird wine - the cheap drunk of choice.

cute fuzzy bunny · 05-31-2005, 10:24 AM

SG - one must ululate while saying it. Milk from the nose must be wiped with dryer sheets that say "wiki" on them.

sgeeeee · 05-31-2005, 05:09 PM

Wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki*

while ululating . . . milk spew.* milk spew.* Wipe with special wiki dryer sheet.* *

Wow.* You're right.* That is very satisfying.* *

* Do non- FIREees know about this?

cute fuzzy bunny · 05-31-2005, 08:03 PM

Shhh...dont tell anyone...

05-30-2005, 11:53 AM	#1
brewer12345 Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 9,039	FAQs? Dory, et al., do we have a spot for FAQs? Seems like there are recurring questions that get asked that could be answered with a series of FAQs. For example, I could easily put together a primer on life insurance and annuities for FIRE'd folks and wannabees if there was enough interest to bother. __________________ "When caught between two evils I generally pick the one I haven't tried before." - Mae West

05-30-2005, 12:10 PM	#2
BigMoneyJim Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,382	Re: FAQs? The problem with the previous FAQ board was that it became a catch-all for questions. A couple of FAQ ideas I recall were stickying FAQ topics if volunteers such as you wrote up a FAQ question/answer, or having a wiki page for FAQs. Or perhaps one could post a message with links to a better example of one of the FAQ threads. Everything above except the wiki is trivial to implement in the current software. I kind of like the idea of a wiki, though...the paradigm shift tends to keep new people from editing it offtopic, and I think we have enough wiki-capable people here to maintain a nice set of FAQs and topic pointers, and the board indexes won't be cluttered with many stickies after a few months. I'll check into wiki software.

05-30-2005, 12:23 PM	#3
cute fuzzy bunny Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Hot cross bun Posts: 21,222	Re: FAQs? You like saying 'wiki', dont you? __________________ To be truly happy, one must live absolutely in the present, with no thought of what's gone before, and no thought of what lies ahead. But to live a life of meaning...one is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.

05-30-2005, 03:37 PM	#5
laurencewill Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 4,536	Re: FAQs? When I lived in Hawaii, I'd always buy my booze at the corner Wiki-Wiki mart.... __________________ When I say 'love me' you say 'sexy'!

05-30-2005, 04:00 PM	#6
cute fuzzy bunny Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Hot cross bun Posts: 21,222	Re: FAQs? So can we simply say that if you have questions, drink booze from the wiki-wiki mart, and if you have frequent questions... __________________ To be truly happy, one must live absolutely in the present, with no thought of what's gone before, and no thought of what lies ahead. But to live a life of meaning...one is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.

05-30-2005, 04:12 PM	#7
HFWR Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: May 2005 Location: DFW Posts: 5,107	Re: FAQs? Drink more frequently! :P __________________ Have Funds, Will Retire I will now proceed to entangle the entire area...

05-30-2005, 06:02 PM	#8
cute fuzzy bunny Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Hot cross bun Posts: 21,222	Re: FAQs? ding ding ding...we have a winner. Since you could type all three words with an emoticon, clearly you dont frequently have questions __________________ To be truly happy, one must live absolutely in the present, with no thought of what's gone before, and no thought of what lies ahead. But to live a life of meaning...one is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.

05-30-2005, 08:49 PM	#9
Nords Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Oahu Posts: 15,046	Re: FAQs? http://ulukau.org/english.php wiki vs. To hurry, hasten; quick, fast, swift. See alawiki. Hele wiki: quick time, quick step. E wiki 'oe mai lohi: hurry, don't delay. ho'o wiki: To hurry, hasten. __________________ * * For more info see "About Me" in my profile.

05-30-2005, 10:17 PM	#10
laurencewill Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 4,536	Re: FAQs? Hey Nords, they still sell Crazy Horse out there in the Wiki Wiki marts? It was the cheapest thing they had, I think it was $2 for a 64 oz bottle. Our parties were always BYOB, but if someone was broke, we would always say, "hey, I think we could scrounge up 2 bucks for some crazy horse!"...we weren't being nice, it was just fun to watch the guy try to drink that crap just to get drunk! __________________ When I say 'love me' you say 'sexy'!

05-30-2005, 11:17 PM	#11
sgeeeee Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Mesa Posts: 3,588	Re: FAQs? Wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki . . . Huh. It's okay, but it's not that great. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

05-30-2005, 11:21 PM	#12
sgeeeee Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Mesa Posts: 3,588	Re: FAQs? Do the Wiki Wiki gods wear dryer sheets and spew milk from their noses?

05-30-2005, 11:35 PM	#13
BigMoneyJim Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,382	Re: FAQs? Don't rush into it SG...wiki is not something to be taken lightly. wiki. Silly silly (wiki) silly me! We don't need a wiki. With this software we can create special group and give them moderator powers to certain areas of the foum. We could make a FAQ group and let them edit FAQ posts. wiki. wiki. I'm not sure we can assigne permissions by thread, so we may have to make a FAQ board again if we follow this idea. Sounds simple enough; all I need is time now. wiki. EDIT: Looks like we can control permissions by board but not by topic, so we could create a FAQ board and allow certain users post and moderator edit privileges to that board. We could either create a new group and add people by invitation or just allow post and moderator edit access to everyone with more than 500 posts, 1000 posts, 100 posts, whatever. Or we could do both to give blanket FAQ making access to high posters and add other FAQ makers by request/invitation. What are the thoughts on this? wiki. I'll see if other things are possible, like making a FAQ user and allowing certain people to moderate its posts...I would like that because we could have one sticky FAQ topic in each board, but I haven't figured out how to manage that yet. wiki.

05-31-2005, 06:45 AM	#15
unclemick Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 5,212	Re: FAQs? Ah yes Way back when I was young - on the West coast - it was Thunderbird wine - the cheap drunk of choice.

05-31-2005, 10:24 AM	#16
cute fuzzy bunny Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Hot cross bun Posts: 21,222	Re: FAQs? SG - one must ululate while saying it. Milk from the nose must be wiped with dryer sheets that say "wiki" on them. __________________ To be truly happy, one must live absolutely in the present, with no thought of what's gone before, and no thought of what lies ahead. But to live a life of meaning...one is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.

05-31-2005, 05:09 PM	#17
sgeeeee Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Mesa Posts: 3,588	Re: FAQs? Wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki* while ululating . . . milk spew.* milk spew.* Wipe with special wiki dryer sheet.* * Wow.* You're right.* That is very satisfying.* ** Do non- FIREees know about this?

05-31-2005, 08:03 PM	#18
cute fuzzy bunny Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ... Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Hot cross bun Posts: 21,222	Re: FAQs? Shhh...dont tell anyone... __________________ To be truly happy, one must live absolutely in the present, with no thought of what's gone before, and no thought of what lies ahead. But to live a life of meaning...one is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.

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