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?

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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.

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