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A few thoughts on community names:

Even if your community focuses on support, I recommend never using that word in the community name or forum names.  For some reason, many users who see that word automatically think “direct support,” and as a result you’ll get many more complaints on the order of, “I posted my question an hour ago — where is the company with my answer??”  

Linking from the support page, however, is a must, and doesn’t seem to have the same effect.   For most of our…