Subforums - When is it too many?

[steven s]

With so many forums, it must take an army of moderators moving posts around.

 

[anotheralias]

[Sorting threads alphabetically.]You can already. It's not very useful. I think it should be removed !

I didn't know we could - don't remove that! It's very handy for TV show/movie/book forums.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I didn't know we could - don't remove that! It's very handy for TV show/movie/book forums.

Not really.
(1) People don't know where the sort by Title is (as you didnt)
(2) If your forum is 30 pages .... where does the L's start ? (Little House on the Prarie) ... Page 15 ? 23 ?
(3) People don't name things systematically. The Sopranos, Sopranos, Season 1 - Sopranos, Episode 2, Season 3: Tragedy on the Mafia - The Sopranos, Last Episode - The Sopranos .... and so on .... and so on .....

These alone are fatal flaws in what you want.

 

[anotheralias]

Not really.
(1) People don't know where the sort by Title is (as you didnt)
(2) If your forum is 30 pages .... where does the L's start ? (Little House on the Prarie) ... Page 15 ? 23 ?
(3) People don't name things systematically. The Sopranos, Sopranos, Season 1 - Sopranos, Episode 2, Season 3: Tragedy on the Mafia - The Sopranos, Last Episode - The Sopranos .... and so on .... and so on .....

These alone are fatal flaws in what you want.

Actually, they do have an alphabetical sort for TWoP, I use it all the time on there, and it is in fact very handy. Just because I didn't know XK has one doesn't make it useless - it just makes me unobservant.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Is TWoP .... Television Without Pity ?
As they clearly have a setup where each Show has it's own forum.
http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showforum=736

 

[anotheralias]

Is TWoP .... Television Without Pity ?
As they clearly have a setup where each Show has it's own forum.
http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showforum=736

They also have general sections where the show only has a thread, not a forum.

 

[Jethro]

We generally use sub forums for stuff that has limited appeal or for one off events, world cups and the like.

 

[Deepmartini]

Why can't subforums act like "filters"? The main forum should have X amount of posts (500 for example) and contain all posts including sub-forum posts. Then when you click on a subforum, it filters all other posts out and only shows you what's in the subforum. The subforum is a subset of the forum above it. The way subforums work now, it's confusing and content is spread all over the place. If someone wants to browse the entire main forum they should be able to and read all forum posts (including subforums) without the need to drill further.

 

[Jainic]

Why can't subforums act like "filters"? The main forum should have X amount of posts (500 for example) and contain all posts including sub-forum posts. Then when you click on a subforum, it filters all other posts out and only shows you what's in the subforum. The subforum is a subset of the forum above it. The way subforums work now, it's confusing and content is spread all over the place. If someone wants to browse the entire main forum they should be able to and read all forum posts (including subforums) without the need to drill further.

I also agree with this. I'm considering to use thread prefixes instead of subforums. Use subforums for archives, pruning, etc.