Could we have a sports debating forum and break it down into college football, pro ball, baseball etc…
I think it would be so much fun and with the popularity of this board we would have so many people over here…
That’s a really good idea. Coz I dislike most sports, and that way I can avoid sports threads altogether.
Part of what makes this board great is its general interest nature. I think the more you subdivide the board, the more you threaten to sap its vitality.
And I certainly don’t see enough of a level of interest to support the many subcategories suggested.
IMHO, of course.
Someone recently suggested a breakaway forum from GQ for computer topics, IIRC, and the response was much as Ringo outlined above.
If we make the SDMB more popular, the hamsters would nae take th’ strain, cap’n …
We’ve resisted the temptation to set up “categories” based on typical library-type classifications. That is, we don’t have a separate forum for history, or a separate forum for sociology, or for math, etc. The only exception is the Cafe Society, which was the most recent forum to be set up, to cover “entertainment” which is a pretty broad classification.
Thus, for example:
- A question about Cecil’s description of the designated hitter rule would go in Comments on Cecil’s Column
- A question asking about an obscure soccer rule would go in General Questions
- A question about whether referees should use video replays would go in Great Debates
- A question about which team you think will win the Superbowl would go in IMHO.
- A comment how you met Yogi Berra when you were young would go in MPSIMS
- A rant about how crummy the [team name deleted]s are doing this year, would go in the BBQ Pit.
So, sports questions, like history or sociology or math, depends on what the initial post is doing rather than its subject matter.