What do you mean by "version"?
I think there are 2 different how to get the best topics, Nick Gammon's and mine, I think @deytron is going with Nicks, that seems to be your view too.
No, it's not my view. Nick's guide contains information specific to the old forum.
Please take a second to look at the topic I have been referring to:
ballscew edited it to point to your How to get the best out of this forum topic last spring. The only thing that remains of the original forum guidelines on that topic is an obsolete screenshot.
The French forum as well as the Italian or Spanish have their own version - somewhat different.
I think it has to match expectations from the German moderator and frequent helpers in German language so it's probably OK if it's not a translation but an adaptation of what's expected if you post in the German forum.
For example in the Italian forum it is mandatory to introduce yourself before posting a question and the moderator will ensure this is enforced before anyone even tries to answer.
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Per,
I am confused. The link is to Nick's forum instructions, which contains a link to mine. I'm not sure I see the point of that, unless I am missing something obvious.
We can talk about this more once someone is able to present a detailed and specific proposal. Right now it doesn't seem like a productive use of my time.
As I am quite new in the forum I plan just to make a translation and not to implement countryspecific rules.
I have seen that back link too and don't see the point of it anymore.
One of the canned replies had been altered to the old one so I changed it back !
Consider Nicks links to be now obsolete due to thier age and the fact that we moved to a new software.
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Hi,
The advertising for Eagle could have been saved. Which private person buys Eagle? KiCad is okay because it is free and open source. There is also a small free version of Target 3001. Otherwise you would have to list all the software that is available.
By the way, the last section "Feedback" is misleading. You think that you should answer directly there and then you are not allowed to. The link here is too small.
Without links to other pages you can't explain anything properly. One must not copy everything what goes. The contribution otherwise takes inhuman proportions.
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Personally I use KiCAD, but from the posts I have read by others it seems clear that Eagle is also popular, which is why I mentioned it. Advertising of commercial products is not banned on here as long as it is in context, by which I mean clearly related to a relevant discussion and not just put here for the sake of advertising.
As for the link, whatever I call it someone will consider it could be better.
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It's not necessary to pay. The no cost version has been limited and the latest versions require you to have an Autodesk account (which is doesn't cost anything). I end up using Eagle regularly because the open official Arduino board designs were made in Eagle and so I use Eagle to open them when I need to refer to the board design to answer a question here. I know that KiCad also can open Eagle designs, but I have found that sometimes the results are not quite perfect.
KiCad is awesome. It is always my EDA software of choice for starting a project from scratch or making a recommendation.
I don't think so. Sure there are a ton of other more obscure options for free EDA software, but 90% of the target audience will use KiCad or Eagle so it's sufficient to mention those two.
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On the subject of schematics, could we consider asking the reader to mention whether the schematic they are posting was one they drew themselves or copied from elsewhere? If copied, we could ask them to mention any deviations they have made, no matter how small, because they might be important. Like omitting components or using different values.
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Good point.
Amazing how many "I used this schematic" but actually used different components and or code.
Circuit diagrams are always overrated when the hardware is programmed in C++ 
....because....?
@paulpaulson You're going to have to give us punchline to that joke!
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The joke is inherently given
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Hi Perry
Purely a polite reply to confirm the info provided in the 'How to Get the best...' has been extremely useful for me, as a first time post on the forum. Hopefully the details provided, in my post, will enable a few helpful replies.
Cheers
Gary
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Thank you Gary,
Much appreciated.