Dogie's Comprehensive Guides Meta Thread

[dogie]

Hello all,

I'll be using this thread to discuss various proposed changes about my guides, including the survey which ended at the end of Feb.


Dogie's Miner Setup Guides:

	ASICMiner Blade ASICMiner Cube ASICMiner Tube ASICMiner Prisma Avalon Avalon2 Avalon Avalon3 Avalon Avalon4 Avalon Avalon6 SpondooliesTech SP10 SpondooliesTech SP20 SpondooliesTech SP30 SpondooliesTech SP35 Technobit HEX16B Technobit HEX8A1 Technobit HEX4M Technobit 2HEX4M KNCMiner Saturn/Jupiter	Bitmain AntMiner S1 Bitmain AntMiner S2 Bitmain AntMiner S3 Bitmain AntMiner S4 Bitmain AntMiner S4+ Bitmain AntMiner S5 Bitmain AntMiner S7 Bitmain AntMiner C1 Bitmain AntMiner U3 RockMiner R-Box RockMiner New R-Box RockMiner R3-Box RockMiner T1 HashCoins Apollo HashCoins Ares NonceTech Sampo Yiazo YBF	BTCGarden AMV1 Bitmine Coincraft Desk V2 HashRatio Tsunami XBTech Pacific 1250 BitCrane T-110 Black Arrow Prospero X1 AMT 1.25TH C-Scape HexFury USB C-Scape BiFury USB MoonlightMiner NanoFury II USB     Gigampz PSU breakout board     Guide meta thread     DefaultTrust Visualisation     Power Supply analysis guide     Manufacturer trustworthiness guide
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Feel free to add comments on the below current proposed changes. [Please don't quote them as they go out of date.]

Change posts below are being filled out now, give me a bit, need to make some screenshots.

[dogie]

Proposed change 1: New 'quick links' to other guides. - CHANGE CURRENTLY ACTIVE

Original, takes 48 lines.




Proposed, takes 16 lines.

[dogie]

Proposed change 2: Expanded 'What to expect' section, and / or test data publishing [change 3 below].

[dogie]

Proposed change 3: Test data graph


Graph is shown as a thumbnail in the above expanded data section (change 2):




And clicks though to a test data graph. [Not reproduced here as its too big, click through above]

[dogie]

Proposed change 4: Modified 'What you need' + affiliate link disclaimer.


Being worked on now.

[dogie]

Proposed change 5: Modified disclaimers section.


Being worked on now.

[dogie]

Proposed change 6: Contents and title colors.


Current on left, proposed on right.

[dogie]

Proposed change 7: Page breaks width limited.


Current forum standard page breaks:

Proposed width limited page breaks (currently active):

[dogie]

Proposed change 8: New where to buy section.


Being worked on now.

[dogie]

Proposed change 9: New 360 degree view quicklink.


Being worked on now.

Original (current)





Proposed Or another spinning variant.

[dogie]

Proposed change 10: New FAQ table layout / code.


Original (current)




Original + centre parting





Original + centre parting + spaced to 2 or 4 lines





2 column + centre parting




Non table




Non table + spaced




Original + centre parting + small text




Original + centre parting + small text + line balanced

[dogie]

Proposed change 11: New Pool information listings.


Original (current), spans entire screen

Antpool ^Register!

Code:

Servers : stratum+tcp://stratum.antpool.com:3333
User    : username.worker or username_worker - auto creates workers!
Password: anypassword

BTCGuild ^Register!

Code:

Servers : stratum+tcp://stratum.btcguild.com:3333
User    : username_worker
Password: anypassword

GHash IO ^Register!

Code:

Servers : stratum+tcp://us1.ghash.io:3333
User    : username.worker  - auto creates workers!
Password: anypassword

Condensed

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Antpool Register! Code: Servers : stratum+tcp://stratum.antpool.com:3333 User    : username.worker or username_worker - auto creates workers! Password: anypassword BTCGuild Register! Code: Servers : stratum+tcp://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 User    : username_worker Password: anypassword GHash IO Register! Code: Servers : stratum+tcp://us1.ghash.io:3333 User    : username.worker  - auto creates workers! Password: anypassword

Spans guide width

Antpool Register! Code: Servers : stratum+tcp://stratum.antpool.com:3333 User    : username.worker or username_worker - auto creates workers! Password: anypassword BTCGuild Register! Code: Servers : stratum+tcp://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 User    : username_worker Password: anypassword GHash IO Register! Code: Servers : stratum+tcp://us1.ghash.io:3333 User    : username.worker  - auto creates workers! Password: anypassword

[dogie]

Survey rewards status:


Current survey responses: 16
Current giveaway entrants: 10 + 1 who entered a bitcoin address, not sure if to accept yet.

As of 02/17/15.


Edit: Awaiting escrow to do the raffle.
Edit2: Completed.

[dogie]

I was unable to find an escrow agent to run the raffle, and so all eligible entries received the prize instead. A total of 9x $20 rewards were issued, with a further 2x $20 pending on the users replying.