Originally Posted by
PatriceJ
there aren't any plans to add new sections (forums) or sub-sections (sub-forums) at this time.
any changes to the current organization will require a great deal of thought and planning.
the "thing" is that we could never hope to have all the sub-divisions it would take to please everybody.
thus the question becomes if/how to re-organize in such a way as to disappoint the fewest special interest groups.
The goal of organization, is to make retrieval and navigation easier. We've all said "I know that's here somewhere, but in all this mess, I can't find anything." So we need to get things back in their home/assigned place and not have multiple places for the same thing.
Since there is no plan to add forums or subforums, maybe a start would be to clean up what is there now. Since the Main Forum has by far the most Threads, I'd start there. Subforums "QuiltingBoard Challenges and Contests" and "For Vintage and Antique Machine Enthusiats" are Forums on the main menu page. So the duplication of assigned place could be eliminated on the Main Forum page, without eliminating any access to these forums.
Second, under Title/Thread Starter, Sticky's "Quilter's Dictionary and Acronyms....a consolidation of previous posts", "General Quilting Board Community Rules", and "Contact Information and Procedures" could be and may already be on the QB Helps forum. Again this is duplicate assigned places.
Third, all Subforums and Sticky's can be listed on page 1 and not repeated on every following page. Again this is duplicate postings.
Fourth, there are threads on the Main Forum that have Forums specific to that topic, such as: Sales notices, chit chat, organizing sewing space. Because Main and Pictures get the most activity, when I want the most people to read a thread, I'm tempted to put it on Main and/or Pictures (and I can always add a picture to make it fit in Pictures even though the topic might really be organization). But allowing inerrant threads to be on these 2 catagories defeats the purpose of organization and confusses people as to what should be on Main. So I think some clearer definitions of Main might be helpful and definitely, enforcing the Forums by moving threads to the appropriate forums is needed. When QB members get the message this problem should decrease.