For instance, we changed the maximum bed temperature to about 87o.

Repetier shows my bed temp at 95C currently.  Did you reverse course, or am I getting an erroneous reading?

It is kinda difficult to search, say "hot end clog", and have multiple threads come up in any logical order. Lots of times you will get the latest update in a thread that is labeled "hot end clog", which apparently nowadays is cross-continental threats and (did anyone compare anyone or any concept to Hitler in this thread yet?) comments which are not always relevant to the search terms. Ideally, any *solved* posts should be displayed first, then most relevant posts on down, not latest.

Solved posts should go to a separate forum. Not to the top.

How about a sub forum within help that mods can move the solved issues to.

The other trouble is people not searching. There have been some long threads from new users where somehow everyone patiently answers question after question. The op could have resolved their problems instantly by searching.

I always feel like an a hole saying did you try a search first, but you're right it's hard to believe how many times some of the same questions get asked,  and how patient people are in answering them.   Sometimes I just search and post the links to try not to discourage people.   Look back at my first posts I sound just like them.

The other trouble is people not searching. There have been some long threads from new users where somehow everyone patiently answers question after question. The op could have resolved their problems instantly by searching.

This times a million

The single best thing we can do, as a community, is to start posting Symptom-Diagnosis-Solution sections in the Wikis.  People should go to the Wikis FIRST; if they cannot find what they need, they should then post a question.  And once they get a good answer, they should then post the Symptom-Diagnosis-Solution in the Wiki for the next guy.  Simply saying "Thanks!" does not help the next guy.  Soliforum is now large enough that finding old postings is increasingly difficult, unless you are fortunate enough to have a unique search term available to you.

The fact that Solidoodle has been unable or unwilling to document the maintenance of their product is frustrating.  It seems clear that we need to do it for them.

If we had been updating the Wiki carefully over the past six months, about 2/3 of the question traffic would be gone.  We could stop answering the same questions over and over again in the posts, because the answers would be in the Wikis.  And we could then focus on the really new issues (like that killer aquarium pump cooler).

As regards the forums themselves, we might be able to focus the discussions better if we had more precise forum topics (convert "Maintenance" to "Maintenance: Extruder", "Maintenance: Bed", "Maintenance: Parts not sticking", "Maintenance: Layers Moving", etc).

cmetzel wrote:

Please close this thread

Could we maybe clear out the garbage, that I admittedly added to

The idea for this thread is valuable, but it will require constant modification and over watch...

I agree totally, and as the offending posts have been taken care of, I am making an effort to return this thread to it's original purpose by deleting all of my off topic posts here. (In this thread)

Lends some weight to the other thread about maybe making rules though...

Schieggster wrote:

you gorramn idiot

Firefly much? LOL

That and WH40K

Please close this thread

Could we maybe clear out the garbage, that I admittedly added to

The idea for this thread is valuable, but it will require constant modification and over watch...