"Common" questions thread/board/whatever

I have been seeing so many repeat questions lately that really are very common. How to update control values programmatically and how to pass data between parallel loops to name the two I see most.
I have a suggestion that we create a common questions thread that is put together with links to common forum questions. This can be a sticky, or maybe force it to come up at the beginning of every search no matter the key words put in. I'm obviously open to other suggestions and I'm posting this because there would need to be other things resolved (can all members post to the thread or just NI staff so we avoid follow up questions? Which links to common question responses would be added to the thread? How do we determine the BEST answers? etc.) However, I think it would be a nice place to point users to, rather than to have to go dig up an old thread and point the users to it ourselves, when it's really what they should have looked for in the first place. We could just post a link to the "common questions thread"
This would save ben from posting his AE nugget link (which he probably has memorized) every day, or people repeatedly posting "try a producer-consumer queued state machine - see NI template that is included with LabVIEW"...and the list goes on.
Any comments on how to implement this, or why it's just a bad idea in general?
Message Edited by for(imstuck) on 06-03-2010 10:15 AM
CLA, LabVIEW Versions 2010-2013

JackDunaway wrote:
Ben wrote:
The serahes can be improved by US !
Tags are included in the serach. If someone asks about a "niad pulse converter" without mentioning it by name, the search engine could have trouble. But if we know about the thread where a conversation took place, we can add tags to that thread with words that appeared in their original Q. The next time some asks, the tags will show in their search.
TAGS have the potential of codifying YOUR expertise in such a way that a novice can stand on your foundation.
Ben
Ben, good plug for tagging - there's one problem though. You're by far the most diligent tagger, but most of your tags are hyphenated or underscored on the compound words. For instance, if I search for "Converting array to cluster", I'm guessing the search engine would not return the result that you have tagged "ConvertingArray-to-Cluster". Or am I wrong here - does the search engine throw out the hyphens and underscores?
A Quick search from my Forum_Tips tag yielded this and I quote"
Ben wrote
The search
engine is smart enough to ignore
underscores. So by constructing tags using an underscore between key
words let you create a connection between them.
All tags
(a text string delimited by spaces before and after) are counted and a
connection made when they are included for the same post.
So
by
constructing hierachial names and grouping them in a sinlge post you
create structure that if repeated, will create your own outline.
I have to Say, I'm liking tags more and more ! !
Message Edited by Jeff Bohrer on 06-08-2010 05:10 PM
Jeff

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Add to the thread by QUOTING what you consider is a lazy question from a lazy poster...
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youre right
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