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If your site needs an FAQ, you have failed [END]
- idlewords 17y agoIf your rant can fit into 140 characters, you have failed.
- jacquesm 17y agoI think I disagree with both of you. Some sites need FAQs simply because the issues raised are not under the control of the site owner. For instance a forum about hardware might see the same questions pop up over and over again and can save on pollution and improve the quality of the answers by creating a FAQ, much more time can be spent on a single answer that way than it ever could be when answering the questions ad-hoc. Even HN could probably benefit from a FAQ, there are plenty of things that pop up over and over again in 'Ask HN' threads. And in tribute to the OP it is certainly possible to have a short but strong statement about a subject that you can qualify as a rant and that still comes in under 140 characters. 'Goto considered harmful' would be a nice candidate. Maybe one of twitters saving graces is that it is actually quite hard to get a good flamewar going in 140 characters ;)
- sharpn 17y agoYes, and often there are two levels of user - those who 'get' what a site is about immediately, and others who need more information. Seperating out detailed descriptions into an FAQ section can lead to a cleaner 'main' site.
- dtfjtdrj 17y agoIf your site needs a FAQ, it has users. If your ego needs a stroke, you should tweet pretentious bollocks.
- profquail 17y agoWhat's with the [END] in the title? Is the submitter using Western Union as their ISP?
- twoz 17y agoSee example of success: http://example.com/faq http://example.com/faq