So when I piece the suggestions together, I get something like the following:
- Make an (unwritten) rule against all beginner questions, moderate the first few posts, and send a fixed reply by PM when it concerns a beginner or stfw question.
- Change "the place to start for OS Developers" into "The OS developers community"
- Change the wiki link to "Visit the OSDev.org wiki - the place to start your OS development adventure"
- Change the OS development forum's description to "For advanced OS implementation issues. All beginner questions are answered in the wiki. Post here if you have trouble with some device or function for which you can't find an explanation, or you just want some advice on implementations" (note that the "when in doubt, post here" is gone)
On the wiki side:
- Default to the expanded list (
There's a vote open - please reply even if you disagree with the whole package of changes)
- Rephrase the text in getting started. People will get repeatedly shoved off the forum into this article so there's no need to add the "don't skip this!!!1!" attitude.
- Create a FAQ entry on "I followed a tutorial but it didn't work", containing basic hints as to "have you followed it to the letter" as well as some hints about problematic tutorials existing on the web (i.e. Bran's known bugs, and something about bad design in that mixing asm and c tutorial popping up recently)
- Link to the crosscompiler tutorial under more titles in the FAQ, so that people can actually find the answers to the basic questions
That'd be about it, no?