Why would the mods forbid me to make anymore suggestions? It doesn't make sense.

In addition to the other forum hierarchy I mentioned, how do these ideas sound? A few had been previously mentioned already, so I'm just listing all the ones that could still be useful . Also, I'm placing these forums where I say *assuming* the current hierarchy is the way things will stay (different from my proposed hierarchy):

CMS Forum - We could probably have it either in "Coding Talk" or "Website and SE Talk"

Discussion Board Forum - I'd have it under "Website and SE Talk"

Misc. Web Talk - Sub-forum of General, I'd still like to see it there, and think it would be useful in organizing General better

Technology News - Move it to Community Talk

Politics and Religion Forum - Rename it. P&R doesn't really sound like it "belongs" on a webmaster forum. Also, there's plenty of other things that I think could "fit" there, for example: Philospohy, Ethics, Media, History, Society, Current Events, etc.


And ones that haven't been talked about yet:

Multimedia Forum - maybe have it under "Web Design and Graphics Talk", things like videos, flash animation, mp3's, etc. could be talked about there

Web Security Forum - have it under "Web Administration Talk", maybe even combine it with the "Server Administration Talk", potential discussions I could see for it include firewalls, viruses, malware, encryption, passwords, internet privacy, etc.

Services Forum - Many people seem to like offering their writing, programming skills, etc. so why not have a forum dedicated to letting people promote themselves in the marketplace (although this is another one of those ideas where you'd have to be careful with moderating it).

Originally Posted by jamestl2

Why would the mods forbid me to make anymore suggestions? It doesn't make sense.

James, it's a conspiracy! I didn't know we had. But if we had, then you just broke that and I need to give you an infraction. Just kidding about that part. If you want to talk more about that, send me a PM about what you're talking about, or you can put a link in the confidential forum where only you and the Forum Leaders can see it.

Originally Posted by jamestl2

In addition to the other forum hierarchy I mentioned, how do these ideas sound? A few had been previously mentioned already, so I'm just listing all the ones that could still be useful . Also, I'm placing these forums where I say *assuming* the current hierarchy is the way things will stay (different from my proposed hierarchy):

CMS Forum - We could probably have it either in "Coding Talk" or "Website and SE Talk"

Discussion Board Forum - I'd have it under "Website and SE Talk"

Misc. Web Talk - Sub-forum of General, I'd still like to see it there, and think it would be useful in organizing General better

Technology News - Move it to Community Talk

Politics and Religion Forum - Rename it. P&R doesn't really sound like it "belongs" on a webmaster forum. Also, there's plenty of other things that I think could "fit" there, for example: Philospohy, Ethics, Media, History, Society, Current Events, etc.


And ones that haven't been talked about yet:

Multimedia Forum - maybe have it under "Web Design and Graphics Talk", things like videos, flash animation, mp3's, etc. could be talked about there

Web Security Forum - have it under "Web Administration Talk", maybe even combine it with the "Server Administration Talk", potential discussions I could see for it include firewalls, viruses, malware, encryption, passwords, internet privacy, etc.

Services Forum - Many people seem to like offering their writing, programming skills, etc. so why not have a forum dedicated to letting people promote themselves in the marketplace (although this is another one of those ideas where you'd have to be careful with moderating it).

Those all seem interesting to me.

I think we may be able to better organize the general forum, too. I'm not sure exactly what that better organization would be, but that's good for the thinking process.

I definitely agree that the P&R be titled differently and include other topics. Maybe it could be the "controversial" forum (sub-titled "differences of opinion welcome").

I like the idea of web security, but I don't think it should expand into computer security since we have The New Tech up and running.

And I don't see that the services forum would be anything different than the ads forum other than it might be more specific. IMO, adding different categories for that would be a moderating and logistics nightmare.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Dave

Originally Posted by DaveMo~

James, it's a conspiracy! I didn't know we had. But if we had, then you just broke that and I need to give you an infraction. Just kidding about that part. If you want to talk more about that, send me a PM about what you're talking about, or you can put a link in the confidential forum where only you and the Forum Leaders can see it.

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.........................

Originally Posted by DaveMo~

I think we may be able to better organize the general forum, too. I'm not sure exactly what that better organization would be, but that's good for the thinking process.

I definitely agree that the P&R be titled differently and include other topics. Maybe it could be the "controversial" forum (sub-titled "differences of opinion welcome").[/quote]

Controversial sounds good Some other ideas you can consider are: Debate Forum, Global Affairs, or even as Tim likes to say "The Pit" (whatever you choose, don't let it be Conspiracy Forums, I don't want you stealing my thunder )

Originally Posted by DaveMo~

I like the idea of web security, but I don't think it should expand into computer security since we have The New Tech up and running.

Good point about the new tech, as this forum idea would be strictly related to "web" security.

Originally Posted by DaveMo~

And I don't see that the services forum would be anything different than the ads forum other than it might be more specific. IMO, adding different categories for that would be a moderating and logistics nightmare.

Actually, for this, I was just thinking about having one subforum (either in Other Ads or Freelance Help), hopefully nothing "too nightmarish" .

Do all them, and you've got Digital Point. You sure you wanna do that

Originally Posted by peter_anderson

Do all them, and you've got Digital Point.

How did you come to THAT conclusion?

Originally Posted by jamestl2

How did you come to THAT conclusion?

It has to be said that Digital Point has a huge number of forums, many like the ones suggested. However, I don't think expanding the forums would lead to Digital Pointless - we've got plenty of good, reputable members here and spam/scamming posts are quickly removed by our fantastic moderator/admin team

Most of the suggestions seem fine to me - the more topics we cover, the more members we'll attract from all walks of webmastering and online business etc.

Originally Posted by whym

It has to be said that Digital Point has a huge number of forums, many like the ones suggested.

Actually, I don't see MOST of these forums suggestions over at DP. The only ones that may be similar are P&R (which we already had) and CMS, that's about it.

The only way it will be similar is if DP starts copying us, which I could definitely see.

Originally Posted by whym

Most of the suggestions seem fine to me - the more topics we cover, the more members we'll attract from all walks of webmastering and online business etc.

As long as those topics don't include spammy / scammy forums (whereas the proposed services forum would have to be heavily moderated. But then again spammy topics are more likely to escape mod notice if they're in the marketplace.)