webfusion
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50 questions?
I may make one suggestion: Why is there a need for 50 questions? Other than providing busy work for Beleth who is apparently sitting around with WAAAAY too little to occupy herself in real life....
What is the goal of any FAQ? In my experience, it provides a quick spot to discover a way to solve a technical problem with a website or get through a specific procedure.
Kinda like a troubleshooting guide.
Is there any substantial number of people who don't get this JREF Challenge concept? (Hence the term FREQUENTLY). Evidence?
Here's the one question we have (from one loser) that caused this thread to open in the first place:
"Will I get the money if I provide evidence of the paranormal?"
Answer --- "Yes. Now apply."
That's it.
Good luck with the project, Beleth, have fun.
Like I said, this place is a ton of laughs!
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{edited to add } I just now read the final note from KRAMER on the other $$$$$$ thread and it says the following ---
Hence, the proposed FAQ has been deemed unnecessary, as it merely re-words answers to questions that need not be asked, IF one has carefully read the Challenge rules. Perhaps those unable to understand the rules, as concise as they are, should not apply.
Yes - perhaps understanding the rules is a prerequisite for applying.
Is my face red! Yeah, well, if I had read that first, my entire posting above would not have been necessary. Oh well...
Carry on ....
I may make one suggestion: Why is there a need for 50 questions? Other than providing busy work for Beleth who is apparently sitting around with WAAAAY too little to occupy herself in real life....
What is the goal of any FAQ? In my experience, it provides a quick spot to discover a way to solve a technical problem with a website or get through a specific procedure.
Kinda like a troubleshooting guide.
Is there any substantial number of people who don't get this JREF Challenge concept? (Hence the term FREQUENTLY). Evidence?
Here's the one question we have (from one loser) that caused this thread to open in the first place:
"Will I get the money if I provide evidence of the paranormal?"
Answer --- "Yes. Now apply."
That's it.
Good luck with the project, Beleth, have fun.
Like I said, this place is a ton of laughs!
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{edited to add } I just now read the final note from KRAMER on the other $$$$$$ thread and it says the following ---
Hence, the proposed FAQ has been deemed unnecessary, as it merely re-words answers to questions that need not be asked, IF one has carefully read the Challenge rules. Perhaps those unable to understand the rules, as concise as they are, should not apply.
Yes - perhaps understanding the rules is a prerequisite for applying.
Is my face red! Yeah, well, if I had read that first, my entire posting above would not have been necessary. Oh well...
Carry on ....
webfusion
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what happened?
how did this project arise from the 'dead' ?
You have now created and posted a FAQ (unoficially as you noted), and the revisions, comments, backpedalling, alterations, additions, retractions, and legal hairsplitting have started.
While it makes good entertaining reading for a posting in a discussion forum, I sincerely hope it never becomes a part of the Official JREF website.
how did this project arise from the 'dead' ?
You have now created and posted a FAQ (unoficially as you noted), and the revisions, comments, backpedalling, alterations, additions, retractions, and legal hairsplitting have started.
While it makes good entertaining reading for a posting in a discussion forum, I sincerely hope it never becomes a part of the Official JREF website.
Besides, it's clear, cogent, consistent and I'm inherently lazy. I hate repeating myself. 
Seriously, though, it's an easy way to handle a lot of repetitive BS that comes up in the forums. They are, after all "Frequently Asked Questions".
Seriously, though, it's an easy way to handle a lot of repetitive BS that comes up in the forums. They are, after all "Frequently Asked Questions".
CurtC
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Re: 50 questions?
Although the JREF apparently has no interest in an official FAQ, the users at this forum could create an unofficial one. I guess that the mods could keep it from being posted here if they got really huffy about it, but the idea is so good that I think they would like it once it was there.
My first exposure to FAQs came from the world of usenet. The group a.t.folklore.urban, for example, got a lot of traffic, and the regulars get awfully tired or responding to someone who posts the story about aluminum pull tabs being traded for time on a dialysis machine, and wonders if it's true. So they created a FAQ to cut down on the amount of clutter.webfusion said:
Although the JREF apparently has no interest in an official FAQ, the users at this forum could create an unofficial one. I guess that the mods could keep it from being posted here if they got really huffy about it, but the idea is so good that I think they would like it once it was there.
walthrup48
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Re: 50 questions?
Available on any number of paranormal topic discussion boards and Google group threads.webfusion said:
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Because I enjoy reading snappy answers to stupid questions
One of the reasons I enjoy the Challenge section is the back and forth, the outrageous, the ridiculous, the sublime and the stupendously stupid.
Now, all we're gonna have is:
CURIOUS GEORGE: "Hey, What about the Million dollars?"
KRAMER: "Read the FAQ."
It kinda ruins all the fun of some threads, especially one with over 4700 views and more than 230 replies.
Bleah!
One of the reasons I enjoy the Challenge section is the back and forth, the outrageous, the ridiculous, the sublime and the stupendously stupid.
Now, all we're gonna have is:
CURIOUS GEORGE: "Hey, What about the Million dollars?"
KRAMER: "Read the FAQ."
It kinda ruins all the fun of some threads, especially one with over 4700 views and more than 230 replies.
Bleah!