Improving Gout Forums For All

Most of my gout forums advice relates to helping you ask good questions in the right way so you get the best possible help and advice in the quickest possible time. This page relates to your complaints, wishes, and suggestions for improvement to help me bring you the best possible support.

Registered Or Unregistered?

Most of the gout forums require registration to participate, but I do not want to put you off complaining or suggesting improvements. Anyone can email me using the GoutPal Contact Form, and other ways to contact me are on the GoutPal Contact Page.

Public Or Private?

My gout support services are for all gout sufferers and their carers. These free services are driven by gout sufferers from all over the world, many of whom return to help others who face similar problems. Therefore, I prefer all discussions about my gout websites to be held in public. That way, other sufferers and helpers can see the issues and may be able to help fix them, or improve them further.

If you have good reason to keep your message private, please use the Contact Form mentioned above. You can also make your contribution to existing debates private, by ticking the Private box at the end of the message. This could save you some time if your message is relevant to a current discussion, but please read the Gout Debating Guidelines before you post your message.

For public messages, please read the introduction to these gout forums before you post anything. In particular, you should remember to search for similar discussions or information before you post your message or ask your question.

To recognize the importance of suggestions and complaints, I am introducing an improvements rewards scheme. Before I explain that, let me explain how to publicly complain, question, or request improvements for any aspect of my gout websites.

The Gout Support Service Improvements Debate allows you to post any message about improving my gout websites. Please use this to complain, suggest or request, but please make your message clear. If it concerns a specific page, then please include a link to that page.

If you are complaining about something, it helps enormously if you explain exactly what is wrong, how it affects you. Though I do not expect it, if you do have ideas about what I should do to put things right, then please tell me.

If you are requesting a new or improved feature, please explain what you want to do, and why you want to do it. If you have seen it elsewhere, please include the link.

If you are suggesting an improvement, please describe it in detail, and explain why you think it makes the page or feature better.

Remember, that these are improvements to the website – either better information or better features for finding and using that information. Many pages have specific links to a debate about that page, so please use that, unless your improvements affect many different pages, or if you want to compete for the improvements rewards.

Gout Forums: Next Steps

To share your improvements (including suggestions, requests and complaints), please join the Improving Gout Forums & Gout Information Debate. If you have specific ideas for improvements, please add them as answers to my question How can I improve my gout support services? Whatever you do, please vote for your favorite answers to that question – that tells me what my priorities should be.

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