FAQs used to be a common part of the Usenet experience.
rec.games.frp.misc never seems to have had one, although I saw a few
examples of e.g. a Fudge FAQ when searching old messages.
Outside of providing answers to frequently asked questions they often
were good in establishing context and a common netiquette for the
newsgroup.
E.g. the rec.games.frp.cyber FAQ which establishes the whole tag system
that the few posters using it still use
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games/roleplay/cyber-faq/

Would it make sense to resume posting them, or has this idea just
outlived itself? Most of the last ones I have found are from 20 years ago.

kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
> FAQs used to be a common part of the Usenet experience.
> rec.games.frp.misc never seems to have had one, although I saw a few
> examples of e.g. a Fudge FAQ when searching old messages.

If you found those old FAQs maybe reposting them would be interesting?

> Outside of providing answers to frequently asked questions they often
> were good in establishing context and a common netiquette for the
> newsgroup.

That's certainly true, however if there are no questions beeing asked?

> E.g. the rec.games.frp.cyber FAQ which establishes the whole tag system
> that the few posters using it still use
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games/roleplay/cyber-faq/
>
> Would it make sense to resume posting them, or has this idea just
> outlived itself? Most of the last ones I have found are from 20 years ago.

So my vote would be, see how things develop. If traffic should pick up
notably posting an updated FAQ now and then might even make sense.

Until then, post some historical FAQs?

--
Laurens Kils-Hütten * lkh@sdf-eu.org * @lkh@social.sdfeu.org

On 1/15/2024 2:27 PM, lkh wrote:
> kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>> FAQs used to be a common part of the Usenet experience.
>> rec.games.frp.misc never seems to have had one, although I saw a few
>> examples of e.g. a Fudge FAQ when searching old messages.
>
> If you found those old FAQs maybe reposting them would be interesting?

Unfortunately they are so old they are really only of historical
interest. The rec.games.frp.dnd one has 9 parts that are all heavily out
of date.
The rec.games.frp.cyber one is mostly about netiquette and definitions
of cyberpunk, and might be posted now with barely a change.
>
>> Outside of providing answers to frequently asked questions they often
>> were good in establishing context and a common netiquette for the
>> newsgroup.
>
> That's certainly true, however if there are no questions beeing asked?

That is in fact the case, there are no frequent questions here because
there's barely anything frequent.
But that never was the problem with FAQs, a lot basically were just
informational documents.

>
>> E.g. the rec.games.frp.cyber FAQ which establishes the whole tag system
>> that the few posters using it still use
>> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games/roleplay/cyber-faq/
>>
>> Would it make sense to resume posting them, or has this idea just
>> outlived itself? Most of the last ones I have found are from 20 years ago.
>
> So my vote would be, see how things develop. If traffic should pick up
> notably posting an updated FAQ now and then might even make sense.
>
> Until then, post some historical FAQs?
>

kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That is in fact the case, there are no frequent questions here because
> there's barely anything frequent.
> But that never was the problem with FAQs, a lot basically were just
> informational documents.

Well, posting something as a FAQ might stir some flame warriors back into
action and at least there’d be a discussion about the FAQ, perhaps.

On 1/16/2024 9:02 AM, Alex Schroeder wrote:
> kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> That is in fact the case, there are no frequent questions here because
>> there's barely anything frequent.
>> But that never was the problem with FAQs, a lot basically were just
>> informational documents.
>
> Well, posting something as a FAQ might stir some flame warriors back into
> action and at least there’d be a discussion about the FAQ, perhaps.

out of historical interest I have posted the rec.games.frp.cyber FAQ
over there. Not sure if the .dnd FAQ would draw more discussions or ire
by the people on that group. Although it's got so many thing in there
that could be discussed.