Site suggestion for forum sections

I'm in no way to be mistaken for a web designer, my old VCR flashes 12:00 and everything, but would it be possible to make it so when somebody posts a new topic that they have to pick a section?

The drop-down box makes you post in the "mohawk hair styling" section on default if you forget to pick one. About %60 of the topics in that section are irrelevant to hair styling. Making it so you have to do something like fill in a bubble for the section you want would make allot of this website much more organised.

Does anyone have any better ideas?

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Permalink Reply by Alexis on October 4, 2011 at 10:44pm

I like it. I think it would help with the organization of the site.

I'm still not sure what happened with deleting inactive members or cleaning out the fourms, but that should be brought back to attention too.

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Permalink Reply by Steve on October 4, 2011 at 11:24pm

I like the forum cleaning idea, but what exactly would be considered a topic that should be deleted? Something that has a less popular duplicate topic going?

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Permalink Reply by Kobalos on October 11, 2011 at 8:37pm

Usually on other forums I've found, they have a nice Archive section, where all the old threads get moved to rest in peace. =) That way they can still be found with a search...providing folk used sensible tags. :D

I agree with your suggestion, if it's possible, certainly it'd be nice to have the sections kept organised.

Mmm...as to duplicate or similar topics, that's tricky when so many threads are rehashes about getting/dying a mohawk. I think everyone should get the chance at their thread being read/replied to and when a thread gets too long it tends to stop getting replies to replies.

Archiving again lets mods move those old threads with little useful info, into a nice separate section while still keeping older useful content in the main sections.

I like me archives! =D

(I see, we now have the first section called: Uncategorised. I've not tried making a discussion recently, but I suspect that should now cope with the first problem.)