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   Welcome to this new forum, which is part of the SharePoint forums group that contains a comprehensive set of forums designed to cover all aspects of SharePoint Products and Technologies. I’ve held off on having these forums created for over a year because we already had a handful of newsgroups in place, but the benefits (search, moderation, filtering, stats, flexibility, planned enhancements, etc.) and the recent surge in usage have convinced me that it’s finally the right time to embrace forums as the de facto channel for community Q&A and discussion.

 

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Answer 1

I note the word "discussion" in: "it’s finally the right time to embrace forums as the de facto channel for community Q&A and discussion." (above).

However moderator Mike Walsh has now stated that this thread is not to be used for posting "information". According to Mike, anything that is not a "question" will be deleted. So if you want to start a "discussion" your post will be deemed by Mike's boolean logic to be "information" and thus deleted.

This being so, I suggest MS had better make it very clear to people not to use the "Start a Discussion" option users are presented with after they press the "Ask A Question" button (at least on this Forum topic if not the entire MSDN Forum). Otherwise MS will rapidly make some highly influencial people very very very angry.

In my case I no sooner posted a "discussion" thread using the "Start a Discussion" option and my post got promptly deleted by Mr Walsh. I wont go into how furious I am - you can assess that from my reply to Mr Walsh's sticky post at the top of this forum (if he hasnt deleted that as well).

I'll simply say that its a sad day for MS when MS people start biting the unpaid hands of the MS community extended out to help them.

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D. Name_1 (aka Anon E. Mouse)