fattybones wrote on May 19
th, 2011 at 4:57am:
In a couple of the forums there are some giant threads that would make really sweet sub-forums.
The reason for doing this (if you wanted to), would be to make searching for information easier, and encouraging new threads to start. Picture "today I wanna see how to make some ammo, and find out which type is best," bam, click the ammo thread, ideas galore! You could use search, but searching a forum is frustrating. The word "ammo" gets used in many unrelated contexts.
With the search you can just search one board or another which makes it more likely to find what you're looking for. Search for "ammo" only in "General" and you won't get gun ammo (Other Primitive Weapons) or ancient ammo dug up from Greece (Project Goliath).
fattybones wrote on May 19
th, 2011 at 4:57am:
And keep "general", but maybe change it to "general slinging"
I've thought about this too, but I can never come up with a convincing enough reason to change a name that already works. The only real reason is to keep new members from posting everything randomly in General instead of where it's meant to be, but they'd probably still do it with a more specific label because we aren't changing their newness. Food for thought regardless.