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What do you think?
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The only question would be if they're going to be hardcore about the copyrights of such things.
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Drivers may be too much to manage, maybe a deep link to specific drivers maintained by the product vendor?
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Those two suggestions are pretty much the same, and are probably not the most effective/fast/convenient methods, but... I don't really see it working any other way.
Posted 8 months ago
I would be happy with a spot on each gadget page set aside for links to the pages on the manufacturers' websites, but then you have to deal with the chance of the page being moved or deleted, as others have stated. Give a little, take a little. At least the url addition would be an easy and reasonable quick fix for now, and would buy some time for someone to come up with a better solution in the future.
Posted 8 months ago
1) Perhaps just a "report" button would be enough to allow the community to police uploads?
2) Allow any number of manuals to be uploaded with Digg-style voting on each, so good ones float to the top. The opens up the possibility for user-created manuals that may actually be more helpful than the official manuals.
3) If policing uploads is too risky for now, perhaps just allowing users to submit URL's to the actual manual, and you just link to it. You have some power to police these automatically by verifying the domain of the submitted URL to the domain of the "Company Site" you have on company pages. It's not perfect, but would still be useful.
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By calaban9
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And perhaps a link to driver/firmware downloads where applicable.
Posted 8 months ago