What is bugging me more and more lately is that there are loads of posts on the forum not concerning Drupal or posts that are put in the wrong subforum. What I mean for example are posts about creating a proper layout/design, which is totally not Drupal related. This is about webdesign/development and is not Drupal specific. There are also a lot posts in the wrong place, like "Is Drupal fir for my needs" in the Module Development subsection.
In short: I think we need stricter rules and some moderators to errr... moderate the forum. Both for the sake of overseeability (don't know if that's a real English word, don't really care either :-P ), because if the real Drupal-related questions are hidden between stuff not Drupal-related the whole forum gets cluttered up, the search function will perform less and the result is more bandwidth usage (it takes more searching to find the correct answer) and more posts about subjects that have already been handled (if someone can't find the things they're looking for). I think it's also best to redirect people with webdesign/webdevelopment issues to sites dedicated to these subjects and to only keep Drupal-related stuff here.
In the end there is less load for Drupal.org, less annoyance because people can find things easier and experienced people will be more willingly to go through the forums to see if there's something they can help with, because the content can be overseen better.
I hope I've expressed my opinion well and I hope we can do something with this idea to make drupal.org work a bit more effective :-)
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This is an example of what I
This is an example of what I meant. A topic with a reasonably question posted in a totally wrong subforum. The best way to solve this is probably to 'force' people to agree with a short set of rules (a few lines that describe the best way to post in the forum) before completing their registration and placing those rules directly above every comment and node form in the forum.
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