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It's funny really how little people read the rules. This week SF had it's description changed since the forums on Gaia are being changed around slowly (we've already seen the GD & ED drop down from the first category to the second).

Anyway, two little words utterly filled the SF with crap. "Bug Reports" in the description and suddenly we had all sorts of threads, and most weren't even valid bug reports.

"Blah blah blah. Is this happening to anyone else?" is not a bug report. It's a "Help me please!" report and belongs in the Q&A.

Anyway, I ended up moving just over 330 threads this period for bug reports, as at the moment they don't belong, and did only 20 normal SF reports.

That's a lot of threads for the SF. And those are only the ones I moved, the other SF moderators also moved a hell of a lot.

So all in all I hope this has been a lesson for everyone. Always read the forum stickies, questions belong in the QUESTIONS and Assistance forum, and people would prefer to read the description instead of the rules sticky. Actually that last one is common sense, I mean come on.

EDIT: So a while later something good has come out of this. Bug Reports & Technical Support has been floated as a main forum. Woot!