1. And IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel would be fun but it would require a lot of time to manage and it would be a bit complicated to have something "ready to use" from a single click. I will see if it's possible to have something like on the old board where you just had to click a link and end up in an independent chat room hosted on my server.
2. The Moderators and Admins forum is where you can have answers to pretty much all the problems encountered on the board. For RL issues, the General forum should be used, since I do not really wish to have a forum dubbed as the "Forum for the disheartened". The General forum already contains a variety of topics ranging from losing Internet connection to vacation trip. It would be a bit muddy to determine when it should belong to a "RL help forum" and when it should belong to the General forum since subjects can quickly shift from a relatively jovial position to something potentially dark and depressing and vice versa (think about the
Scott/Christian/Gabe thread if the answer had been slightly different).
3. Polls are often about a specific subject, so I would be inclined to sort them in the forum we already have. Since you do not have that many active polls and unlike ezboard where polls keep bumping back at the top when someone votes, here polls are time limited and get closed automatically after xx days so it's unlikely that one day we will see the first page of a forum filled with old polls like on the old board.
So, in general, I prefer a straightforward management of the forums. What I mean by this is it's easier to manage them by broad groups rather than by precise subjects. For example, already there is some sort of confusion between the Feedbacks forum and the Moderators and Admins forum because they deal with a similar subject (one deals with forum issues and the other deals with board suggestions and website problems) and there is several topics that were posted in the wrong place between these two forums.
Also, I really appreciate suggestions even if I don't always implement them.
1. And IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel would be fun but it would require a lot of time to manage and it would be a bit complicated to have something "ready to use" from a single click. I will see if it's possible to have something like on the old board where you just had to click a link and end up in an independent chat room hosted on my server.
2. The Moderators and Admins forum is where you can have answers to pretty much all the problems encountered on the board. For RL issues, the General forum should be used, since I do not really wish to have a forum dubbed as the "Forum for the disheartened". The General forum already contains a variety of topics ranging from losing Internet connection to vacation trip. It would be a bit muddy to determine when it should belong to a "RL help forum" and when it should belong to the General forum since subjects can quickly shift from a relatively jovial position to something potentially dark and depressing and vice versa (think about the [url=http://www.dragnix.net/Msg_Board/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=99]Scott/Christian/Gabe[/url] thread if the answer had been slightly different).
3. Polls are often about a specific subject, so I would be inclined to sort them in the forum we already have. Since you do not have that many active polls and unlike ezboard where polls keep bumping back at the top when someone votes, here polls are time limited and get closed automatically after xx days so it's unlikely that one day we will see the first page of a forum filled with old polls like on the old board.
So, in general, I prefer a straightforward management of the forums. What I mean by this is it's easier to manage them by broad groups rather than by precise subjects. For example, already there is some sort of confusion between the Feedbacks forum and the Moderators and Admins forum because they deal with a similar subject (one deals with forum issues and the other deals with board suggestions and website problems) and there is several topics that were posted in the wrong place between these two forums.
Also, I really appreciate suggestions even if I don't always implement them. :wink:
