Reorganization.

[ainsoph9]

I like what I see.

[carj]

yep thats nice =D, the "future projects" could go above "wiki/forum feedback" just to keep same stuff close

oh and move "manga&novels" below "anime" same reason <- well this one is not necessary just my opinion

everything else seems great

[ainsoph9]

One other suggestion: it might be good to separate the "Manga and Novels" section into one for manga and one for novels. It might help prevent unnecessary crossover.

[Rajikai]

I don't know about admin mode on this forum, but on Invisionfree (I'm sure proboard had it as well) but there is an option of display post or something like that. Here it's called
Display topics from previous:

Well I assume it could be changed from All topics as default, and one could change it to 3 months, 6 months or 1 year. If you don't want to spend time moving all old topics to a graveyard or the Death pile, this could be another way.

Deactivating the post for some areas should be possible. But I really don't recommend it. It's your choices.

I agree with Carj about moving future projects under wiki/forum feedback as well as Manga/novels under Anime.

I agree with Ainsoph when he said separate Manga/Novels

And I think that's about all that could be done. This topic should come to an end soon/now and that poll you were talking about should be made, or not...

[hobogunner]

Okay, now I want to make sure that we are all envisioning the same thing here:

The Baka-Tsuki main forum page will contain 5-10 forums:
Listing(With subforums)

• News
  Projects
  • Stalled
    Active
    Complete
    Hosted
  Future Project Suggestions
  Forum / Wiki Feedback (Move unified format guidelines here)
  Translation Assistance (or just keep it Lingua...)
  Alt. Languages
  • (all the languages)

• Commune
  • Anime
    Music&Culture
    Games&Computing
    Manga
    Novels
    Fan Fictions

• CDZ

Death Pile.

Okay, the main differences:

• moved Fan Fictions inside of Commune
  moved Future Projects up.

Now, a question before I hold a poll....is this not too many levels? As in, to get to a Baka-Test forum, I'll have to go >Projects>Active>Baka-Test>'topic'.
Just want to ask and see if people are okay with that before I do anything.

[ainsoph9]

It does not look like you will have to step-in too far like you would for a large program for debugging purposes.

[Rajikai]

You could simply add a hyperlink to the description that way or would be only
Active projects > baka-test

[hobogunner]

Too many hyperlinks / too long of a description.

I suppose the easiest way would be to just bookmark it.

[Rajikai]

not really. It would look something Similar to this.

Projects
Everything and all the light novels that Baka-Tsuki has ever touched could be found here.
Want to discuss our Current/previous projects? This might be the place for you!
Moderators: XXX, Name, Anon, Etch
Subforum: Stalled, Active, Complete, Hosted

39 words
505 Characters.
BTW all the links go to the same place...

[hobogunner]

Ah, I see, I thought you were referring to list every project under the "Projects" thing. That wouldn't work too well.

Yeah, that's what I was planning on anyways.

[Mystes]

A)The simplest idea I can come up with is putting every project in a subforum of the Auxiliary brigades (Such as Pui Pui and Haruhi are) this way, it's easier to access.

B)However, another solution would be to realign the main projects on top of the auxiliary brigades, in a better fashion, based on the results of the most popular project down.

C)Organization I would say to get all the projects and make a sub-forum under the Baka-tsuki forum in between news and forum wiki as 'Projects'
Make two subs-forums on that. Active, Inactive. Links on every project under that in the description and the active and inactive on the Projects subforum description.

D) Separate CDZ and Commune. CDZ for spamming, Commune for serious discussion.

Other posts have simply been rules for such things, but I'm asking for what method of organization we should have here.

Agree with A and D. B and C too complicated.

"Under-4 posts?"

Under four words posts.

[hobogunner]

A+D would look like:

Current Layout, except the addition of:

• Auxiliary Brigades:
  • <Name of every project>

Get rid of "Commune" section in 'General', and make the CDZ it's replacement.
Add a death thread.

C+D look like:

Okay, now I want to make sure that we are all envisioning the same thing here:

The Baka-Tsuki main forum page will contain 5-10 forums:
Listing(With subforums)

• News
  Projects
  • Stalled
    Active
    Complete
    Hosted
  Future Project Suggestions
  Forum / Wiki Feedback (Move unified format guidelines here)
  Translation Assistance (or just keep it Lingua...)
  Alt. Languages
  • (all the languages)

• Commune
  • Anime
    Music&Culture
    Games&Computing
    Manga
    Novels
    Fan Fictions

• CDZ

Death Pile.

[Mystes]

Both are fine.

[ainsoph9]

A and D oversimplifies things and does not seem to accomplish too much.

[Rajikai]

Actually it does quite a bit. The goal of this reorganization is to make the forums a tad bit more serious. But decreasing it in size, It accomplishes that to a certain degree.