if i win the miss america beauty pageant, is that something everyone wants to laugh at or is that confined to the personal section? if there are 8 x 10 glossies, is it in pictures?
First of all, I would like to digress and point out that the Pictures section is only for quilt-related pictures. The Pictures section is one of the "main" themed sections of the
quilting message board. All other kinds of pictures should go into either GCC or PDA.
But I agree that often it's not clear where to post, even with non-controversial topics.
I'm leaning towards judging by how "contagious" the topics are. If it's something that can spawn dozens of similar topics by other users, then it probably should be posted in the PDA. This way, we'll keep the GCC balanced, and not flooded by similar discussions.
If one user creates a topic "I won Miss America pageant", it's not likely that 20 other users would post how they just won a "Miss Indiana" or "Miss Universe" or something similar.
On the other hand, a topic of "I'm having a headache" is likely to be followed by a dozen other topics describing how each poster is having her own headache.
The result would be the GCC section filled with a listing of topic after topic all about someone's headaches.
In theory, it doesn't matter if it's positive or negative. But the way it seems to be working out in practice is negative topics spawn more negative topics. While positive topics don't spawn as many similar positive topics.
Do this explain things better?