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So what I propose is simply this:
1) To create a new forum for Cycle Training. There is demand for this and volunteers interested in disseminating their collective and experienced wisdom.
2) To move Open Toolbox from Social Forums to the Mechanics forum as a regular subforum.
3) To destroy the Moulton social forum and to move the threads to Bikes & Bits
4) To delete the Book Club social forum and to move the threads to Misc & Meaningless
5) To rename the Freestyle forum as Freestyle & Tricks and put it at the top level
6) To move Trackies to the top level
7) To move all place forums into a single top level forum for United Kingdom, thus removing the need for people to join a social group before being able to participate in a local forum (which I do get a constant stream of requests about from confused people)
8) To delete the now empty social forums
9) To allow city based forums to be requested for #7 once a criteria of X posts by Y members in a city based thread has been met
10) To take steps to allow for some queries to exclude Classifieds if desired (perhaps an option on your UserCp)
What I would like before I do all of this, is a little feedback about how well it might be received.
What I'm trying to do is to help with the forums growth by allowing the different forums to exist more autonomously and with more prominence prior to a design change in the near future.
Being able to silence Classifieds should work for all forums... noise reduction if you're not interested in something.
Ultimately, I would be interested in allowing the work that hippy and I do to be further sub-divided so that those with a strong interest in a particular area help maintain the quality of that forum. An example would be the polo forum and how well the guys there manage their own stuff and it exists as a strong subculture within a larger community (this forum and the wider fixed scene).
I also think that whilst we are about London, that as tens of thousands of posts relate to other cities that those cities should be given a more prominent place. Not quite top level as this is a London site, but something less vague than "social forums" and more noticeable.
And all of this leads to one big thing... the end of the ability to just create a forum. But there's a reason for that... it's a hack. A big smelly hack. And that functionality isn't going to be easy to reproduce in the next version of the software which I am way overdue on upgrading to precisely because of big smelly hacks.