Forum Changes

Since we have such a phobia regarding the search button, I think it might be helpful to reorganize the forum. I am proposing the following:

1) Announcements section - Instead of the forum home page being the forum index, I think the home page should be the announcement section. I also think there need to be MORE announcements coming from Admin and Mod. For example, if the admin and mods know the challenge room is down, there should be a sticky in the announcements that will be updated when it is fixed.

2) Announcement section - I think all announcements should be locked as soon as the mod or admin posts the original message. If things need to be added to the post, the mods or admins can unlock the thread and then relock. This will ensure that additional "important" information is not on page 34 of an annoucement and hiddent between multiple "thank yous".

3) Announcement section - I think past announcements need to be cleaned up to mimic my #2 idea. (I would be more then willing to help with this)

4) Email - I think there should be a generic MOD email like there is a support email that all mods could log into and "work" from. Since we never know who and when mods are online, this would be extremely helpful.
Added 7.20 - OR, there could be a special forum where users can POST in but not READ that the mods had access to. That way we could post in that forum and then only the mods could see it and all the issues would be in one placed. If this was implemented, $5 would not be necessary, but would still be nice.

5) Online notification for mods and admin - I have mentioned this before but would like to mention it again. It would be extremely helpful to add another box to the left hand navigation that lists all the names of the mods. If a mod is online, there is a star or it says "online" or SOMETHING so we know who is online and when.

Added 7/20:

6) Topic names - any chance that the mods could start working on structuring or getting the word out or something that thread names like "HELLLLLLLP!!!!!" and "CHALLLLENGES!!!!" is not really condusive to a well designed forum. It is very hard to emphasize the ability to use the search function when threads are not named properly.

Last edited by Prinncess (07-21-2008 04:38)