okay. so interests needs less subforums.

entertainment needs more.

so; post your thoughts, a new arrangement (be sure to include where the threads from teh old posts would go)

awww...I'm having fun talking about it in Jusun's thread

but we'll need to record exactly what we want, eventually.

- Introductions
- The Lounge
- Entertainment
... Music
... The Big Screen (TV, Movies)
... Misc
- Interests
... Debate
... Writing
... Fashion (lounge?)
... Technology (lounge?)
... Sports (entertainment?)
- Pictures
- Relationships
- Boys Locker
- Girls Locker

you guys have to look at the statistics and not use your personal judgements.. i mean debate and fashion are the two most active interest subforums, while however close knit the anime forum is, it still isnt active.

There needs to be serioues reorganization. I liked Justin's idea for the coffeshop the most out of all I've heard. And I honestly think a books forum would thrive.

Debate is rather stagnant right now.

no new debates. mostly just repeating old ones to newbies.

and any new ones are mostly current events.

debate + current events

-- ·Introductions
-- ·The Lounge

-- ·Entertainment
---- ·Computer Games/Technology
---- ·Movies/Television (+ commercial sports)
.......... ·Anime/Manga
---- ·Music

-- ·Interests
---- ·Current Events/Debate
---- ·Fashion
---- ·Hobbies (eg. cooking, leisure sports, whatever)
---- ·Literature
---- ·Writing

-- ·Pictures
-- ·Relationships
-- ·Boys' Locker
-- ·Girls' Locker

-- ·Interactive (These forums don't add to your post count)
---- ·Forum Games
---- ·Humor
---- ·School

^ Hmmm.....I really like how that's organized. And the whole Interactive forum thing is neat.

yes i like the interactive part

SPORTS SHOULD GO IN ENTERTAINMENT.

mmm...

coffeeshop would just be a focused lounge.


coffeeshop

would contain school, current events, debate, and books.

Hm, I agree. Anna's idea isn't that bad.
However, I think Jusun is now putting Cars, Health, Sports, and Current Events in Lounge...

Cars should either go to tech or boys' locker. Mostly they were in the boys' locker before the automotive forum was created.

Can I point out that manga is neither television nor is it movies?
But I like the interactive forum.

QUOTE(Retrogressive @ Feb 9 2006, 10:23 PM)

Can I point out that manga is neither television nor is it movies?
But I like the interactive forum.

I didn't know where to put it so I just lumped it with anime.

Maybe Hobbies should go under intrests? Or have a Art forum where anima/manga would be?

thanks all for this discussion. please read:

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...dpost&p=1895059

by that, i mean: instead of saying 'oh, lets add this, take this out, merge this and that together', coming up with a complete set of forum structure, focusing on the 'community center' forums. although i applaud the thought that goes into the individual suggestions, why i dont like them is because they tend not to take into consideration how the rest of the forums are organized. uniformity is key to a more user friendly forums.. which is what we are striving for no?

the thing about coffeeshop is it would be like having the age seperations, as i think older people would be more gravitated towards that.

-introductions

-lounge (current)

-entertainment:
--TV and Movies
--Music
--Humor

(would contain TV and Movies from entertainment, Anime from interests, and any technology relating to the three (like new TVs, ipods, etc.)(cars, as becuase of motor sports, also here)

-coffeeshop: a place to discuss books, school, current events, etc.
--debate corner (if needed)
--writer's spotlight (if needed)
would prefer it be one large lump tho. would mean more traffic for everything.
(current events, books from entertainment, debate, writing, school)

-pictures

-G pod (can't think of a name)
--locker rooms (boys and girls' lockers)
--relationships
--health (or the nurse)




yea, it'd reduce the number of community forums, but i think it'd work.

I don't think Technology should be moved to Entertainment. It doesn't make sense—most of the topics in Technology aren't necessarily entertainment-related.

i like this plan, although i agre with michael that technology maybe better placed elsewhere.

i also dislike the idea of the coffee shop as proposed originally for the samereasons as justin.

and DEAR GOD how fast did the thread in the lounge move?

^ Fast...and I loved it. It hadnt been like that in a loooong time.

I think if Literature is going to be implemented rather than Books, it would make sense if Writing would be in there as well.

I like the idea of dividing up Entertainment into Books, Movies, Television, and Anime/Manga.

I would have liked the idea of Current/Events and Debate together. Too bad all of Current Events is in the Lounge.

Sports would be nice in Entertainment... And leisure sports can go under Hobbies. Interests needs some cleaning out as it has been stated, but cb3 is our main priority right now.

Edit\\
Actually, I got a chance to look at Interests and Entertainment. I like the way it is now. It'll take some time to get used to, but the way they are currently organized is great.

the lay out is well set up anna. But i agree with mipadi on the technology....perhaps make a seperate Section "Technology Resource" on it's own because techonology is a broad subject in itself...

i think boy's locker and girl's locker should be merged.

a lot of duplicates between them.

Yeah, and they're not really delineated by gender anyway. The Girls' Locker Room has some girls-only topics, but…well, I think there are more girls in the Boys' Locker Room than boys.

and really, people go into both, so it's not like it would be different posting a girls only topic in a common locker.

Hold up; what happened to current events?

^

Justin, that sounds like a nice idea. Michael is right; the two can't really be differentiated by much. It would take a lot of moving and merging. What would be a good name for it?

i agree with michael and justin regarding locker rooms...

if they were merged, perhaps it could fall under the same general heading as relationships?

Bad idea. "omg my first perioddddd" doesn't exactly fit into relationships.

i meant they could be subforums under a general heading

the locker rooms?

^ yes, that's what he means. I don't agree with it though.

^x2That sounds nice. I like getting rid of the seperate lockers.

I also really like Anna's set up. Yes, it would take a lot of merging and what not, but it would make more sense. You could even hire some people just for that if you don't want to do the work.

let me clarify:

i menat that relationships and a merged locker room could be seperate subforums under the same general heading

Maybe just call it The Locker Room?

NO.

wtf. that's it. i'm gone.

what?

im inclinded to say calm down, as i detected angry overtones...

check your PMs.

Perhaps we could have a merged locker for the less gender-specific topics, and in that, we could have separate girls/boys? Cause there are some gender-specific topics...

thats true, but still yet, guys and girls still post in gender-related topics even if they are not of the gender.

So? They're still gender-specific. "i'm leaking into my panties and it looks like cauliflower" may interest some guys, but I'm sure most aren't ready to see that up and out there.

I agree with that Sammi, I'm in the girls' locker room alot and there way more gender specfic topics than topics that can apply to both boys and girls.

-- ·Introductions
-- ·The Lounge

-- ·Entertainment
---- ·Anime/Manga
---- ·Literature
---- ·Movies/Celebrities
---- ·Music
---- ·Television (+ commercial sports)

-- ·Interests
---- ·Current Events/Debate
---- ·Hobbies (eg. cooking, leisure sports, whatever)
---- ·Technology
---- ·Writing

-- ·Pictures
-- ·Relationships

-- ·Lockers (including health)
---- ·Gender Specific Topics

-- ·Interactive (These forums don't add to your post count.)
---- ·Forum Games
---- ·Humor
---- ·Academics

For the lockers, I was thinking, "Since most girls/guys reply to the others' topics, why not just have one generalized locker?" like many other members have already suggested. Gender-specific topics relating to periods or whatever could go into a subforum within the lockers with a rule having people specify in the title which gender their topic is directed to in the thread ("MALE" or "FEMALE" before the topic title). Not sure if that would work.

If you're going to combine the lockers, I don't see why health topics wouldn't also fit in there...particularly since it's not actually an interest

Touché. Edited.

I really like Azarel's, I mean really really. I don't see anything wrong with it.

Combining Current Events/Debate would be funny. The current debate topics won’t be easy to search. I have a feeling that people will post millions of current events which would cover the debate topic.



I think it's better to have 2 separate forums for genders than to have topic titles mentioned "male" or "female". What is the big difference?

If we're just going to label topics Male/Female, then do we really need a subforum for them? Just put them with the rest.