Post #3185 by kingslod on Tue, Jul 2, 2002 1:01 PM

What if you had one forum, but in addition to typing in your subject, you HAD to select a "topic" from a pull down menu? Then you could break out as many subjects in the pull down menu as you wished (sales, events, collecting, eBay, blather, grog talk, questions, off topic, whatever). These topics could appear before the subject on the site and in email form, so that you can look at the subject immediately and know whether you want to read it or not. Also, topics that might get heavy discussion for a brief amount of time could be easily added and then taken away after a bit (i.e. Caliente Tropics, Hukilau). People who want one forum would be satisfied, and people who like to filter could do that as well.

Interesting, and potentially really cool idea...but, the forum is at the mercy of the software that runs it. I'm not sure how easy it would be to re-program the whole site....