Lot's of General in General

[Michael Morris]

One thing I'm considering adding to this feature is some "virtual forums" These forums will work by finding threads based on category instead of by forum. If you try to start a thread in a virtual forum you'll be prompted to specify which real forum you want the post to be placed in.

 

[Jdvn1]

Hm, cool idea.

I like the categories so far.

 

[the Jester]

I like the 'virtual forum' idea- that's cool.

The ability to sort threads by category would be a cool thing too.

 

[barsoomcore]

One thing I'm considering adding to this feature is some "virtual forums" These forums will work by finding threads based on category instead of by forum. If you try to start a thread in a virtual forum you'll be prompted to specify which real forum you want the post to be placed in.

No, no. What you do is allow users to create their own virtual forums by selecting categories they want to view across ALL forums.

So I can select, say, "Minis", "Movies", and "GenCon" and my personal forum shows me all threads on all forums with those categories. I can still go browse the standard forums to see what else I'm missing, but for the most part I've got a neat custom forum that shows me everything I'm interested in.

Now THAT'S cool.

For it to really work, though, a thread needs to be able to have multiple categories. Cause a thread about "At GenCon I'm showing my movie I made by animating my miniatures" could reasonably belong in ANY of those categories...

 

[Gnome]

I would rename the "General" category to "Other". I think "General" implies that it could be about anything, whereas "Other" implies something that's not on the existing list. Just MHO.

 

[Michael Morris]

I like the 'virtual forum' idea- that's cool.

The ability to sort threads by category would be a cool thing too.

You already can do that. Go to the bottom and select categories from the sorting options.

 

[andargor]

I would rename the "General" category to "Other". I think "General" implies that it could be about anything, whereas "Other" implies something that's not on the existing list. Just MHO.

I second that. I was going to suggest eliminating General completely, but with Other you can at least put it at the end of the list and it dissuades people from being too lazy and shoving everything in General.

Andargor

 

[Gez]

When I started my "horror stories" thread, I looked for a Trade or Consummerism or Buying or Market or whatever similarly-themed category, didn't found one, and took General.

 

[Darkness]

I second that. I was going to suggest eliminating General completely, but with Other you can at least put it at the end of the list and it dissuades people from being too lazy and shoving everything in General.

Interesting point.

 

[Squirrel Nutkin]

Interesting point.

Darkness oughta remember that this became such an epidemic on my board last year that I solved it by making two changes:

1) Changing General Discussion's name to "Everything Else"
2) Moving it to the bottom instead of having it on the top