Prune some forums?

[TAF]

I feel that VB-Faq would be better off with less forums. Condensing some of the less popular ones and merging them with the ones that are similar to them would do a great deal of justice to the community.

As it stands now, its a major pain to view the form with 30 different forums, many regarding the same issues and topics, rather confusing, intimidating to new members, and makes the place look dead.

I propose that The following forums be merged into one

Off Topic and General Discussion

Buy and Sell and Help Wanted should be one forum

vBulletin annoucements should be moved to the Getting Started Parent category

Choosing a web host and vBulletin hosting should be merged with General vBulletin. If nothign else Choosing a web host, and vBulletin hosting should be the same

Setting up and Customizing your Forum, and Simple vBulletin tweaks should be all in the same

As you can see alot of those forums, are very similar in their topics and discussions. There are more that can be merged, and rearranged but thats just a start and wanted to throw this starting set out, to see how the idea flys.

[Noppid]

Good suggestions. When Joe gets settled in to his new home we can have a look at that and perhaps do some trimming.

[WoodiE55]

I'm all for the pruning as well. Nice suggestions so far!

[Peggy]

Likewise, the Smilies and Emoticons, and the Rank Badges forums could be consolidated with the Other Graphics forum under Styles and Skins category. None of the three forums has enough threads to warrant their own forums, imo

[RC Attacker]

Yeah, sounds good. Most of the forums is "vBulletin Styles, Skins and Graphics" should be merged or sub-forumed too. Sub forums are fine, I just like a shorter index to scroll though. And sub-forums look cool

Pretty much what ^ said lol

[Peggy]

um no, I disagree with that. I wouldn't merge almost all of the forums in Styles, Skins and Graphics. Most of them do deserve their own forum. ;)

[minstrel]

I'd have to disagree.


vBulletin Skins & Styles (ver 3.5x)
vBulletin Skins & Styles (ver 3.6x)
vBulletin Graphics Discussions
Button Sets
Smiles and Emoticons
Rank Badges
Other Graphics
Graphics Requests
Show Off Your Creations

All of these could be either integrated into one or two forums or at most set as subforums (e.g., the 3.5 and 3.6 series).

On the other side of the fence, there are topics of interest that either don't exist except as "Off Topic Discussions" or where it's difficult to tell WHERE to put them.

Collapsing superfluous forums would free up room for adding a couple, and the overall structure of the forums would be improved.

[RC Attacker]

Well, not all, but more like the way you said it. Just merge some that should be merged.

Are you really banned????