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Chronon:
Pointing out wiki entries for discussion is appropriate for the forums.  But static info like this should not live exclusively on the forums.  It would be much more appropriate to put this into a wiki page and announce its location on the forums along with requests for input and so forth.  A wiki page might only consist of plain text if appropriate.  There's nothing terribly intimidating about that.  If someone finds the documentation of the codes used for the wiki confusing then they can certainly ask about that on the forums as well.

Llorean:
Simply put: Documentation needs to be in a place that it can be properly indexed and found.

Forums are designed for discussion. Threads move. While you can bookmark one, either it needs to be stickied, or people need to bump it, for it to be easily found. Both of these are very objectionable solutions.

Wikis are designed for documentation. You can create a nice index, such as a page listing all the Tutorials. Someone who wants to find a tutorial to do something then goes to the tutorial page, sees one for what they want, and follows it. If there's not one for what they want, they can very quickly see that, and add one, if they know how to do something that isn't written about yet.

So, "static information" is considered spam. It does not belong here. It is not a discussion topic, and it simply clutters up forums that are already cluttered enough half the time.

Mikerman:
Spam?  Come now ...

;)

I always wonder if there should be a special forum section for helpful hints such as this (that is, the original poster's).  A place where people who aren't going to create/post a Wiki could put down their thoughts.  It still comes up in a search, and still serves a beneficial purpose, it seems to me.

I wouldn't expect that this would be seen with favor for various reasons, but wanted to toss it out there for thought, if not action.

Basta (Spanish for, enough).

lukeprog:
My apologies for putting this in the wrong place.

This is not spam. I don't know the author of the program.

Chronon:
Llorean was not suggesting that you were advertising this software for profit.  I think that he meant spam as in clutter.  Much of the discussion here has been general in nature; commenting generally on the posting of tutorials on the forums.

I think the bottom line is: While tutorials (and other static, one-way messages) in the forums are actively discouraged, a contribution to the wiki would be most welcome and appreciated.   :)

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