A moderator got noted for modding a note?
Anywho … people who know about tennis and such have coagulated in the Game Room forum … anyone who has an opinion about tennis-wear will be found there …
I don’t think we have too many fora quite yet … it’s getting close … but I think it’s fine the way it is …
No sub forums.
Harm! Foul!
Both of you meet at dawn!
You know, when we started we had two (2) forums: About This Message Board and General Questions. That was it.
Ed told me you could divide up the entire world that way, so that was sufficient.
That’s what we did for a long time. I sometimes wish we had stayed with that format. 
Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
PS Everybody said “this won’t last long.” That was in 1996.
Some of the posts above are suggesting further segmentation of the forums, like separating politics and elections. As it is, I regularly see (and report) threads opened in GQ that are obviously asking for advice or suggestions. Sometimes the thread title itself makes it clear that the OP is seeking advice or suggestions. If people can’t remember that GQ isn’t for suggestions or advice, how do you possibly think they’ll know where to put a thread about a political or election issue?
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Can you expand on this a bit? Frankly I’m mystified by the resistance to splitting and sub forums. Is it really harder to scroll to a different forum than it is to scroll through all of the topics you are not interested in? For me, putting games in its own forum made a HUGE difference in my board experience. I don’t follow sports or play video games and those topics dominated the other forum. Things that interested me were usually pushed to the second or third page.
If a new forum or sub forum is listed as a front page choice it is automatically “sustainable”. It’s not like GQ rises to the top because it’s the busiest forum. The forums are tacked where they are. I guess what I’m asking is what’s meant by sustainable?
I’ll go on to say I don’t really have a strong opinion about this either way. I’m more curious as to why some posters do.
Makes a forum look dead and child forums are easy for posters to forget about. People tend not to post in forums they think are mostly inactive.
Much like Shakespeare’s play, it’s “much ado about nothing”. We all have personal tastes and opinions, but to say that this is some major issue is, to say the least, over dramatizing things.
I support this 100 million thousand percent. GD has improved tremendously since the election Stuff was taken out of it. How much better would be if we just get the bullet and dump the political stuff in it?
Seriously it’s politics anyway why not just bite the bullet and call it that stuff was taken out of it. How much better would be if we just get the bullet and dump the political stuff in it?
Seriously it’s politics anyway why not just bite the bullet and call with that. ?
Yeah, some people are splitters and some people are joiners. We try to keep a balance.
It’s not like it hasn’t happened. As Tuba said upthread, we used to just have the two fora. So make a suggestion and see if it gains traction. It’s unlikely, but it has happened.
What all would you label as “politics”, and what would be left for Great Debates to cover?
What would GD cover? Almost anything from the Cecil columns from about 2000 and back. Pseudo science, religion, philosophy, what if type questions. Frankly if you look at the early days of GD politics was a negligible part of GD.
Granted there is some overlap But I have every confidence that the current mods could cope with that.
I’m not going to respond to them “what is politics?” Question. If you have a specific example of something that is so questionable that it will cause the current crop of mods heads to explode or something I’ll be happy to respond to that. Also keep in mind that in any category there will be stuff that’s questionable ala the OP. There’s never going to be 100% perfect system of categorization that will make everyone happy 100% of the time
How much would heads explode if we called it Elections and Politics?
Abortion rights.
Illegal aliens.
Welfare.
Crime.
Great Debates, or Politics?
Maybe a separate “grammar” forum is needed?
Give me the actual questions not the topics. History of abortion rights? GQ. Current players in the abortion debate? probably GD, Abortion:Should all illegal aliens be forced to get mandatory abortions to lower the welfare and crime rates? That would go in Politics for about 10 minutes and then end up in the Pit.
“To many forums!”
<<glasses clink together>>
I still think Serena’s catsuit should go in IMHO, but it is not something I’d got to war over.
It’s Wikipedia that’s killing GQ, not the other forums.
Elections already is “Politics.” Might as well rename it. Looking through GD I see only a couple of threads that I’d call political. We seem to be good about understanding the difference.
I’ve been to another message board with so many forums and sub-forums that is like going into an empty room and shouting at yourself. Post a question and maybe someone will stumble across it within 6-8 months.
This place is fine.
This comes across as slightly bullet-hungry.