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Originally posted by bugscout:

you tell us about 10 problems you have

I don't have any problem, just wanted to write down my thoughts.

nobody can answer this without creating a chaotic thread.

as I didn't have a problem I don't need answers but they are welcom ofcourse.

for example opera 9 beta, you find nothing about 9 on the opera frontpage, because only nerds should test it.

I thought it was good to have testers.

if you go to opera community http://my.opera.com/community/ you see..

... I see 143 links

if you are in a hurry you can use search - the one in the top searches by "or" so take advanced - adding quotation marks around an expression matches the exact expression only ("bacon and eggs") - so type "opera 9" - 4 pages - 163 threads
quite easy

not as easy to see as (dynamic) advertisement on my own websites.

Every time I look for something I have to read something like 10 000 words on 50 pages.

start with home -> faq

Using the home link from the home page is an oxymoron.

no board will give you any information, if you don´t know how to handle it.

You cant blame the user. An UI can be as inteligent as a person.

Being unable to edit a post means that the last resort for finding an answer is more like a dump as helpful

that´s the problem of all boards

It's not a good excuse to have the wrong info in the search results.

http://www.google.com/search?hs=9TX&hl=en&lr=&client=opera&rls=en&q=%22opera+banners%22&btnG=Search
no page with problems and your page is not under the first 10

I see this:
google_result_opera_banners.gif

The value of a site is mesured in the amound of links pointing at it from other sites. Also known as google pigeon ranking

if the links would be free for google, all the spammers of the world would post questions with their tiny little footerlinks into this board.

Who are you calling spamers?

I find that a bad excuse to give people no credit for their help. I think a forum should credit it's users. I see a pagerank 1 page from a person with 12000 posts. Then my Opera blog as well as my profile have page rank 5??? I love the attention but I'm sure I didn't earn it.

I think it's most fair to show google the same pages as the users see? Not a fake version. There currently isn't any credit given to active forum members. It's artificially prevented. I suggest pumping up the sites from actual community participants.

People are to lazy to say "thank you" today. A link isn't to much to ask, helping people is a great way to promote a website. Much better as flooding your mailbox with spam I would think? Or did those email bomb peeps deserve the credit and people giving help deserve non? Strange math... Then there is little point in putting a "get opera" link on a page that doesn't exist in the search results. Sure, professional webdesigners would be more interested in participating in the discussion. Is that a bad thing? Google is perfectly capable of ignoring the 1 alligator, 2 alligator topics. Don't worry, only good topics get credited.