Advice On Following Forum Advice

I've been reading a lot of tech forums recently in research I'm doing to write the content for our Transfer-Email site.

It actually all started out with forums. The email guru (my business partner, Anders) saw how many people were having problems transferring their email and realised that the method used in the Easy-Email guides is also a great way to get around compatibility issues when transferring email too! So he put together a separate series of guides designed to take you through the process.

It was a lot of work as each email client is different - which is of course why so many people struggle to follow the advice on forums. The advice on forums is great but generally a person is giving the advice based on their own experience, ie how it works for their circumstances. So if someone has moved email from one email client to another it's not necessarily (in fact very rarely) the same from a different email client to a different email client!

So anyway, in doing this research I noticed that, quite frankly, there's a lot of rubbish on a lot of the forums and that a lot of the comments that are positioned as advice come from people that are clearly not experts, even if they mean well.

This is not any reflection on the contributors and moderators of the forums, they do a great job of helping people and they give up a lot of their own time and give freely of their expertise. I'm talking about the people who post comments and "advice" after the main article.

And the thing is that false advice is worse than none at all because it wastes a lot of time and often ends you up in a worse place than when you started.

So here are some tips on following forum advice:

• Only believe advice on moderated forums. At least then it is likely that some of the ridiculous suggestions will be removed.

• Some forums have a thumbs up or best answer facility - these are very useful!

• Look for answers from people who answer regularly or who have been recognised by the forum owners

I hope this saves you some time and frustration!

The Transfer Email guides are written to show you how to transfer email from one specific email client to another. This is advice you can follow and know it works! The guides are $10 each so it's not free advice but it will save you time searching for other "solutions" that may not work. You can see if the guide you need has been written at link to transfer email home page or for more info watch this video: Transfer Email the Easy Way