I was going to suggest Mundane and Not So Mundane Pointless Shit I Must Share, but SIMS is much more concise and the acronym reads much better.
I get the hesitance to make too many sub-forums, but sports seems like a natural split. There are really three natural cleavages: sports, gaming, and games we play. I’d be interested in a poll of which ones people are interested in (i.e. how many people go to the Game Room for all three, just sports, etc.).
Rule 1a: If you have a personality problem with another poster or just a personality problem overall, take it to the pit rather than crying to the mods about your hurt feelings and how other posters deserve warnings rather than mod notes or :: no moderator action at all!!!
Rule 1b: Yeah, sometimes repeated pittings don’t work. Fair enough. But there are occasions where cowards and weasels take their pittings to ATMB, before raising the issue in the pit even once, never mind a reasonable couple of times.
Personally, I have a carve out for posters who appear to suffer from certain schizo disorders (non-medical term intentional as diagnosis over the web is impossible) . I’m frankly unsure what to do about them, but a pile-on seems icky. Just a qualification.
Also there’s the writing about someone when they can’t easily respond issue, but that’s a separate matter, apparently more contentious.
If I were king, I would stop the zombie attacks immediately by requiring that the SDMB implement the oh-so-simple script that automatically locks threads where no one has posted to the thread in the last six months.
Annoying non-standard initialisms that appear to have been made up on the spot would be banned, with warnings issued if a court determines the initialism was probably used as jargon deliberately as some kind of statement about the poster.
Also, no signatures. It makes people look as if they consider every post they write an important and noteworthy event.
The zombies would still be there to look at, but they would be in nice little cages where they couldn’t get out and bite people on the ass years later.