Those are all excellent ideas.

Wonderful!

Agree. Great idea.

Like a Forum for cars you can go to specifics sections for specific issues.

I used to help moderate one.

I'm not sure how your forum works, but that one posted all new questions on the main page even though they are associated with the sub forum.

That way everyone sees the new stuff and after a while it is only found in the sub areas.

And moderators can make certain ones Sticky (like answers) that will stay on the top of the sub area.

Hope this helps.

Perfect.

remember the main page layout would be the same 'forum'
the sub forums are a way to help find posts by topics & sub divisions,
everyone here remembers before we had the EM hangout
what a chore it was to go back 3 -4 pages to find a topic that you wanted to see.
So as the increase in users and amount of topics/post push a 24 hr day 2 pages back
we can expect this increase or even double in a year or less.

EM's for sale EMFS:, EM's for trade EMFT:, EM's wanted EMWTB:

IIBAEMMWGKM sub forum? (if I buy another EM my wife's gonna kill me)

Hoov has a good point-
There are very, very few EM listings on the general 'Marketplace' section (or the forums marketplace) I actually see more EMs for sale on that 'other' site!

all suggestions so far sound good to this new member...

from a selfish perspective, i know having all the em "fix it" posts grouped together would be helpful for people trying to put together a generic knowledge base... when i was in the process of convincing myself that i could really fix one if it broke, i consumed virtually every post i could find (here and on other sites) that had any type of em question or technical knowledge in it...

the online guides/TOP dvd's are teaching me "how" to fix things... but reading questions/answers (and old war stories ), is teaching me "how to find what to fix"... you can get tons of "experience" simply by reading answers to questions... having them all in one spot would have saved me a ton of googling...

+1 on that. It probably won't increase the number posted here, but it sure would make 'em a lot easier to find

Sounds like a good idea to me with the different categories already mentioned.

It will definitely make more work for the moderators as they will have more sub forums to sort through to make sure posts are in the right place. The question is this going to be a PITA for them and is it manageable? If they are good to go then lets do it.

Moderators your thoughts please.

Ken

Well I dont think it's any more work
just another option to where a topic/post will be placed
unless someone gets trigger happy and has to have a post in every sub topic all the time,
but volume will always be volume or how much is posted on a 24 hr day.

Good idea! Would be happy to see that.

Haha Yep.

Great idea

I knew what that was before the parenthesises-seses. Also sure I wasn't alone. A sub forum could be IIBAEMMWIGMMSOTC.

DaN

Fabulous idea!

EM parts that Pinside members have spares, or can fabricate them. These are items that can no longer be bought online.

That looks good to me Pin-it, not too many but enough. As long as you could still post to the top level EM Hangout for stuff that does not necessarily fit into any of the other categories.

Guess that would have to be above IIBAEMMWGKM in the hierarchy since SOTC would probably occur 1 or machines before being KILLED

Looks good!

Looks good so far color coded or not.

Ken