After spending many sleepless nights surfing S2KI, and reading the many posts by people, I have come to a conclusion. There needs to be a FAQ section with information that is based on facts. There are many questions that are being asked over and over and over, and you have people that respond with, "If I had a penny every time this question was asked...", or "Do a search idiot!"

Some of the older S2KI members will definitely see the same questions popping up and will probably get tired of seeing them. However, the S2000 is still coming out every year and you have new owners asking, "Which intake is the best?" or "What exhaust is the best bang for the buck?" or "I just installed a new exhaust. How can I get that loud rumbling noise to quite down in the car?" or the infamous "Can I put a flip up DVD player in my OEM stereo slot?"

If the old timers of S2KI could put their minds together and come up with information that is being repeated in the many forums, I believe it would help out with the site and help new S2000 owners.

As for some of the "young" old timers of S2KI? Please have patience with the people that are new to the site and may be asking a question you have seen posted 50+ times.

 

There are FAQs at the top of most forums already, if only people took the time to look

I am not going to list all of them, but as an example, S2000Talk FAQ

 

Some faqs can be found in the library

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showforum=144

And yes, if more old timers could help us out with faqs, or even articles we would truly appreciate it.

 

Thanks S2000GT. I did find a lot of information in there. However, it takes a couple of clicks to get there if you start on the home page. Just since I have been on the site, there have been a huge amount of forums opened up and it can appear overwhelming when you're trying to get an answer to a simple question that might appear common sense to the old timers.

Like other sites on the net, can't we have a link on the home page that goes straight to FAQs?

 

The main purpose of the Home section is to catalog technical facts, How-tos and answer FAQs. Anyone who has been around for a while will realize that pretty much anything that there is to know about the S2000 down to the finest detail resides somewhere on S2KI in some fashion. It might be cataloged in one of the FAQs at the top of a specific forum or it might be the the Library forum (probably not) or it might be written up in the Home section somewhere.

Going forward I (and everyone else whether they know it or not) want to see more and more of this information make it's way out of the forums and into the content management system which is the Home section. The reasons are many:

1. It will solve the search "problem". By cataloging the wheat and leaving behind the shaft there will be a lot less to search through and all of it will be worth searching (faster and more accurate). Finding the preverbal needle in the forums haystack is becoming less and less likely with each passing day as another 10000 posts or so get added to the pile.

2. It will be easier to browse and navigate as there will simply be less to wade through. Some information is simply not findable. It exists but in small little seemingly unrelated bits. It's not until you piece those bits together and see the whole picture can you understand the greater wisdom. It's a lot like taking three cups and smashing them on the ground and then trying to figure out which cup a single shard belongs to or trying to sort out exactly which bits belong to each cup simply by asking for cup #2.

3. It will be concise. Many of the answers to important questions are not simply presented but rather developed over the course of a conversation sometimes starting with a question. Many good bits take weeks or months to digest in topics spanning 5 or 6 or more pages of comments by tens or different people. By boiling these topics down into facts and presenting them as single documents they are easier to read, easier to understand and ultimately more useful to those who look for the information later.

The problem with this plan is that it's very labor intensive. When people say "why don't we have x" or "can we do x" they in effect say "cthree why haven't you done x" or "cthree can you do x". The answer to both is probably not. There is only so much time for me to do those sorts of things and it works out to maybe 1 day a month if we're lucky.

What would be a great help and would really get the ball rolling would be if members, and yes even guests, could take an hour or two now and then when they are researching something take the info they find and copy/paste, proofread, spell check and turn into English what they learn. In other words, condense and summarize a topic that interests them at the time and then email it to me (see contact us link) along with your name for proper credit and I will post it in the Home section for others to use and share.

If a couple of hundred people do this once a month or even a quarter then within a short period of time, say 3-6 months, the Home section would be filled with a ton of valuable information that you simply can't find anywhere else or at all.

I'm not asking you to write a book but rather something about 6-10 paragraphs long maximum with a couple of supporting pictures or illustrations if there are any. This would be a huge asset for the community and in that spirit others would do the same for other topics that you may need to learn about sometime in the near future.

So, if you get a bit of time I would like to ask that you lend a hand and make a deposit into the s2000 knowledge bank. I also ask that if you do this please send it to me reasonably complete so that I have to do as little work to publish it as possible. I've had people send me links saying "this is good information for the FAQ" but unfortunately time doesn't allow me to do what's needed to make that information useful and I can't use it. The more finishing you can do the faster I can post it. If there is too much to do on it that time allows (say more than 15 minutes of prep time) I'll need to shuffle it back in the order and it may never float back up.

The ideal is:

-English with at least high school level grammar (punctuation, complete sentences, paragraphs)
-Proofread and spell checked
-Plain text 6-10 paragraphs of 5-6 sentences each separated by blank lines; making a pretty Word document with embedded images and fancy formatting actually slows down the process because I need to deconstruct and then reassemble it.
- If you have images to include, add a notation in the text like [image 1] and attach the images to the email in a way I'll know which are which.
- Images are best in JPEG format. Send them without resizing or mucking with them too much. I'll need to resize them to the right size and may crop them as needed.
- Attach PDF or other non-images to the email with a note about how they relate to the text.

Thanks a bunch in advance and I hope we can get things moving with your help!