Scratch

I find that many of the same questions are asked (how do I scroll?) and often times people will write up their own explanation or guides. I don't think that this is needed since that are already tons of guides/posts/project explaining how to do things such as scrolling. A lot of the time you even get people advertising their own guide projects which just promotes attention mongering over helping people.

I think people should be linking others to already developed and well made guides. Sadly, there many guides are hard to find or burried deep away (like the old forum sticky guides) so people keep asking the same questions with different answers every time.

I think that the wiki could be a good place for directing people since it is (more or less) open to editing. With many people helping out there will not be any sloppy or bad guides  (lots of "helpful" posts are poorly written I find) because everyone can combine their knowledge to make the guides the best they can be.

Lots of the old forum guides could be added to the wiki which would make it easier to find stuff
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=37561

I think that the scratch community needs to get in the habit of refering people to these guides for help. Not only would this reduce clutter, it would deliver better help to those who want it.

Last edited by archmage (2010-08-03 14:23:04)