Very true Zac - and I must admit that I forgot about that
page when I posted. However, I note that it is very sporadic and most probably under-utilised. This may be due to people not knowing about it or not being confident in adding to it, either in thinking "is this link good enough" or "am I putting it in the correct place".
To be honest, I think I looked at the link
page when I first used this site and there were only a handful of links and now (about 6 months later) there are not that many (if any) more.
The fact that Dave himself has not added the
Shure links there also tells me something. Now don't get me wrong, I think Dave has done a wonderful job with this site and I don't know if I could have dealt with all the drama that he has had to with server problems and other issues that are beyond his control. I am sure that everyone else here shares my thoughts and are grateful for the time, and dedication that Dave shows. I wish that I had the solution but I am not entirely sure what the best method of utilising and maintaining a links section would be.
Should someone comb the forum posts as they are entered to look for and validate the links and then place them in the appropriate place? If so, who and how often should we expect it to be done? Could the site code be set to pull out the links? Do people actually want a
page with links or are they confident and competent enough to search them out themselves? Are some of the links only relevant to the forum topic in which they were posted?
I am beginning to think that I may have just opened up a can of worms!
As for the second part of your reply Zac, I recall that there are a lot of informative links placed within posts, I recall that Wolf and I posted some links to some sound reinforcement tips not that long ago and I just posted the link to the
Martin Xciter board. Ship has provided a fantastic resource link in McMaster-Carr and there were some helpful audio
plug charts and heaps of others that I cannot directly recall. It comes back to the question of whether or not we should put them in a central location or are we happy having them threaded throughout the site? :?