I've been giving a bit of thought to the heroic effort provided by the moderators to keep topics in the correct places.
Would it help the situation to have the 'beginner' forum at the top so that many of the new visiters post to a 'general' forum by default rather than posting various topics in the
servlets (and
jsp) forum(s)?
At the time of writing this post, the first page of the various '
java section' forums hold the following number of locked topics (assuming moved, though some may be duplicates or locked for any other reason, of course):
Servlets - 14
JSP - 10
JSF - 0
Portals - 1
EJB - 3
Distributed java - 1
Object Relational Mapping - 1
JDBC - 5
Web Services - 0
Swing/AWT/etc - 2
JNLP and WebStart - 1
Java ME - 2
Sockets and Internet Protocols - 1
Threads - 0
Performance - 1
Applets - 1
I/O and Streams - 3
Other Java APIs - 3
Game development - 0
Java in General (Beginner) - 1
Java in General (Intermediate) - 5
Java in General (Advanced) - 34
Holy
cow on the Advanced forum! Either this busts my hypothesis that new arrivals might prefer to post in the first forum they lay their eyes on, or when you are really stuck, no matter how much of a beginner you are, all questions can be considered 'tough'.
I'm relatively new to the site, so I have no idea whether you have experimented with stuff like this before, or whether there have been endless discussions on the topic (I tried searching for 'wrong forum' and 'forum order' in the Javaranch forum, but nothing like this came up).