Where Am I?
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- OGRE Retired Team Member
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Where Am I?
This is the new home for all the beginner programming questions. This will be a largely community driven part of the forum, meaning you should not expect any of the core team to constantly reply to questions in here, of course, they still might.
C++, design, uml, and general OOP are the preferred topics, but anything is welcome. Questions need not be OGRE specific, and have a good chance of being moved if they are. Although, feel free to use OGRE in examples or questions.
We will currently only have one primary moderator from the community, but later I may add a few others. This choice will be made based on merit in this little subcommunity, so play nice.
One last word of warning, nothing in the way of flames will be tolerated in here. ALL questions are welcome, no matter how simple, trivial or beginner. If you feel this area is beneath you, just move on.
C++, design, uml, and general OOP are the preferred topics, but anything is welcome. Questions need not be OGRE specific, and have a good chance of being moved if they are. Although, feel free to use OGRE in examples or questions.
We will currently only have one primary moderator from the community, but later I may add a few others. This choice will be made based on merit in this little subcommunity, so play nice.
One last word of warning, nothing in the way of flames will be tolerated in here. ALL questions are welcome, no matter how simple, trivial or beginner. If you feel this area is beneath you, just move on.
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- Greenskin
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- OGRE Retired Team Member
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- Location: The Woodlands, TX
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- Kobold
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- OGRE Retired Team Member
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- Location: The Woodlands, TX
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- Greenskin
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- OGRE Retired Team Member
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- Location: The Woodlands, TX
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- Halfling
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I am so glad this board is here. The help has been simply incredible and quick, it is a very refreshing change from hoping the 1337 d00dz in ##C++ are in a helpful mood. You guys rock!
I <3 the OGRE Wiki, and SO SHOULD YOU! 

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- Gnoblar
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Thanks for the excellent resource
I have been designing software for years and this is a trick that most large corps never figure out
Keep rocking with the forums.

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- Orc
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"Moved" flag littering up the forum!
So many users are posting Ogre-Specific questions in this Back-to-Basics forum. I mean, there are dozens of "moved" flags messing it up. Maybe for this forum only, the "Moved" flag could be disabled? By now, I hope most users can distinguish the difference between programming questions and Ogre questions, but this dosen't seem to be the case... It is really annoying! It would be really simple to post a sticky stating that if any user is missing their thread, then they should look in the Help forum. I know this is against general forum notices, but it has been really awful lately for miss-placed posts! Just a suggestion. 

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- Bugbear
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If a person isn't really paying enough attention to realise that they are posting in the wrong forum (no offence to anyone), there seems to be a good chance that they aren't the type to read the sticky topics. It seems to me that if you remove the "moved" display option, you'd likely get a lot of new posts showing up from those same people either re-posting their original question and/or asking "where'd my post go?"
It usually doesn't take long before the threads with "moved" written on them disappear. I'm not sure if that's a time thing (ie; the "moved" link is automatically removed after a certain amount of days), or if they just end up getting pushed onto the next page where I don't see them.
It usually doesn't take long before the threads with "moved" written on them disappear. I'm not sure if that's a time thing (ie; the "moved" link is automatically removed after a certain amount of days), or if they just end up getting pushed onto the next page where I don't see them.
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- OGRE Retired Moderator
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The moved keyword is a good hint and stays. Personally I never browse forums, but instead use the "show posts since last visit" link. So I don't realise it when a post is in the wrong topic. Though I move them when I do.
And since we're speaking about annoying things: Coloured or bold print posts *are* annoying. Those posts are not in any way more important than other posts. It is very distracting. Same goes for ALL CAPS HEADLINES.
And since we're speaking about annoying things: Coloured or bold print posts *are* annoying. Those posts are not in any way more important than other posts. It is very distracting. Same goes for ALL CAPS HEADLINES.
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- OGRE Retired Moderator
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I move topics around, relentlessly! 
Otherwise people will never learn.
I don't use the show topics since last visit, because I like to see which forum the questions are in.
I also move some topics out of General Discussion because that forum is not for specific Ogre questions...

Otherwise people will never learn.
I don't use the show topics since last visit, because I like to see which forum the questions are in.
I also move some topics out of General Discussion because that forum is not for specific Ogre questions...

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- Gnoblar
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