I gather that the old "R6000 Series AC WiFi Routers" and "Wireless N Routers" forums have been subsumed into this (renamed) "General WiFi Routers (Non-Nighthawk)" forum, as those older forums are now empty ("No posts to display").
Did anyone in charge consider the possibility of leaving a posting in each of those now-defunct forums with a link to their replacement? (Or some other kind of redirection?) In the real world, some users might have a bookmark or two which are now about as helpful as one of those "You are not connected to your Router's WiFi network" error pages.
A separate forum for complaints about the forums still seems like a good idea to me.
Over the past week, multiple requests ("Report Inappropriate Content") to get that scam-link posting ("Message 2 of 2") removed have been ineffective.
Now, "No posts to display" on the "R6000 Series AC WiFi Routers" forum has been replaced by a (locked) topic, "R6220 Router". Moved into a dead forum by some other (typically alert) Moderator? Yow.
In a similar vein, a couple of months ago, I tried to "Report Inappropriate Content" concerning one of the sticky posts, "General info and Troubleshooting for Cable Modems":
> Now, "No posts to display" on the "R6000 Series AC WiFi Routers" > forum has been replaced by a (locked) topic, "R6220 Router". Moved into > a dead forum by some other (typically alert) Moderator? Yow.
> "It just doesn't matter!" - Bill Murray, Meatballs
Thanks for your highly valuable contribution.
To which "It" do you refer? The now-dead forums which continue to gather (locked) user threads? The scam-link posting? The misleading
and/or hard-to-read documentation?
"doesn't matter" to whom? You? (Who cares?) The users who might still stumble into a dead forum? The users who might find and follow a scam link? The users who waste time trying to read bad documentation?
What ever happened to those golden days of:
> Tell you what! > If you see one of my posts, just ignore it. I will reciprocate. End of > story!
And now I've received one of those lame e-mail messages about which, up to now, I've only read others' complaints:
From: NETGEAR community <community@netgear.com> Subject: Did you get the answer you needed? Date: 30 November 2018 at 02:53:50 CST
Hello ${recipient.login}, [I love those personal touches.]
A reply to a topic you are following has been accepted as a solution!
Author: ${thread.topicMessage.author.login} (${thread.topicMessage.author.ranking.name}) Date: 2018-11-23 12:20 AM
It goes on to quote the posting with the scam link.
In fact, I have not yet gotten the answer I needed, and I see no way to respond to that question. But thanks for asking. And no, the referenced posting (with the scam link) has not actually been marked "as a solution".
> Thanks for being a NETGEAR Communities member. > Your NETGEAR Communities Team
At the upper right corner of your screen should be a RED rectangle. Move your pointer over that rectangle and press the left button of your pointing device. Your problems will be solved and now you can pursue a life.
Thanks for your latest typically valuable contribution. Did you begin life this way, or is it the result of accumulated deterioration? If you don't care, then why do you seem to care so much? Other unanswered questions:
The usual "experts" (and/or busybodies) keep redirecting these unfortunates to some more appropriate forum for their models, but the only model list where they might appear seems to be the one in the Generalissimo Francisco Franco forum. (Of course, it's tough to test that speculation, with the sealed coffin in the way.)
Make that eight. And now another scam link posing has appeared in this thread. "Report Inappropriate Content" has had as much effect on the new one ("Message 23 of xx") as it had on the old one ("Message 2 of xx").
I'm curious. How, exactly, were you expecting to get answers to your questions? Perhaps fixing some of the problems cited above would make responding to your questions easier for the victims.
