General Discussions

**jamestl2** · 01-04-2008, 08:03 PM

There

On a serious note though, I originally have P&R Talk as a sub-forum of General. Do you think those sub-forums should be put under "Community Talk" directly? (Along with F&S Talk)

**serandfae** · 01-05-2008, 12:56 AM

Well, what I was thinking was that General Discussions is already kinda the "fun discussions" thing already. If it's split then yeah, it ought to be its own subcategory of Community Talk, leaving General Discussions the "fun" one. Just makes sense, you have general, more specific, and the noob channel.

**fastreplies** · 02:54 AM

James,

Why not instead of calling it General Discussions, to call it something like "The Lounge"?

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**DaveMo~** · 01-05-2008, 02:06 AM

At one time, we called it the Water Cooler.

Dave

**fastreplies** · 01-05-2008, 02:53 AM

Water Cooler sounds like I'm at work...

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**serandfae** · 01-05-2008, 03:00 AM

How about General Discussions, Major Obsessions and Private Moments?

**DaveMo~** · 01-05-2008, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by serandfae

How about General Discussions, Major Obsessions and Private Moments?

Gee, who knows where that would lead?

Dave

**fastreplies** · 01-05-2008, 03:18 AM

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Originally Posted by DaveMo~

Gee, who knows where that would lead?

Dave

To the Love Boat

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**Cheshire_cat** · 01-05-2008, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by DaveMo~

At one time, we called it the Water Cooler.

Dave

The "Water Cooler", sounds like a seinfeld moment.

**jamestl2** · 01-10-2008, 05:59 PM

Thanks for stickying the thread (whoever it was, even though I didn't have to ask

).

Anyway, I don't have the edit powers anymore, in case anyone else had some minor changes, I don't know if I can have them for longer or not, though (due to security reasons).

**serandfae** · 01-10-2008, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Cheshire_cat

The "Water Cooler", sounds like a seinfeld moment.

Nah, then you'd have to call it "Talk about Nothing."

**TimSchroeder** · 01-15-2008, 10:13 AM

I stickied the thread. We are going to make some changes within the next few weeks.

**colochris** · 01-17-2008, 10:45 PM

I think that a forum maybe under the same category as web and blog talk shoudl be forum talk. This way fellow board owners can talk about forums. Being that this site is a one stop for all of a webmasters needs, forums and communities are a big part of many sites these days. So it would be nice to have somewhere to talk about software, getting guests into registered users and such.

But just my own 2 cents

Colochris

**TimSchroeder** · 01-18-2008, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by colochris

I think that a forum maybe under the same category as web and blog talk shoudl be forum talk. This way fellow board owners can talk about forums. Being that this site is a one stop for all of a webmasters needs, forums and communities are a big part of many sites these days. So it would be nice to have somewhere to talk about software, getting guests into registered users and such.

But just my own 2 cents

Colochris

Thanks for the suggestion. I made several changes yesterday. More changes are on the way.

**joder** · 01-18-2008, 09:06 PM

The CMS forum idea is a good one. That would move those discussions out of HTML and CSS.

**jamestl2** · 01-18-2008, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by joder

The CMS forum idea is a good one. That would move those discussions out of HTML and CSS.

..........and the PHP Forum, that area already has over 8,200 threads.

**joder** · 01-18-2008, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by jamestl2

..........and the PHP Forum, that area already has over 8,200 threads.

Yep. I want to help someone with PHP and open up all these Joomla questions.

**jamestl2** · 01-18-2008, 11:21 PM

I also wanted to say that *if* this is the way general discussions is going to remain organized, then maybe we should put the "News and Suggestions Talk" category underneath Community Talk (so there's four forums there rather than having two categories with two forums each).

**TimSchroeder** · 01-19-2008, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by jamestl2

I also wanted to say that *if* this is the way general discussions is going to remain organized, then maybe we should put the "News and Suggestions Talk" category underneath Community Talk (so there's four forums there rather than having two categories with two forums each).

That's probably a good idea. Might do it.

And I'll probably add a CMS forum shortly.

**DaveMo~** · 01-19-2008, 03:06 PM

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Community Talk

General Discussions (or The Lounge, for fastreplies)
Fun and Story Talk
(Possibly Politics and Religion Talk, or as Tim likes to say: The Seventh Level of Hell)
Miscellaneous Web Talk (I think Dave likes it here better)
New Member Introductions

Webmaster-Talk Forum News and Suggestions

News and Announcements
Suggestions and Feedback
- Report PM or Email Spam
- Confidential Talk

I'm not sure that adding the forums under Forum News and Suggestions to the Community Talk is good. The difference between the two forums is that the Forum News and Suggestions is only for threads about this forum (like news about WT, announcements about or from WT, and suggestions for WT) while the Community Talk could be about any thing, place, or site.

If they were together, it may confuse their purposes and we'd probably get more "outside" news posted in the wrong forum (which could be handled by not allowing thread origination by anyone other than the staff) or we would get suggestions for things not necessarily related to Webmaster-Talk.

Dave