Forum:Radical Forum Overhaul

Well, I've used the word 'radical' in the post title, because that's what I think is the most appropriate word for the scale of change I am proposing to our system of forums.

If you look at Forum:Help desk, you'll see there has only ever been 1 post, in 3 and a half years. Forum:General Discussion has no current threads, and all relevant topics for that thread are generally discussed at blogs instead, and the same goes with Forum:Game.

I therefore propose that we shut down these three forums and leave just Forum:Watercooler, which is the only one that ever gets any attention. We could retain a game forum perhaps for the likes of the sticky threads - the anecdotes, game reviews and the walkthroughs.

But we could redirect users needing help to user talk pages of admins and trusted users instead of the help desk - it's where they clearly go anyway. Furthermore, all general or game based discussion can move to blogs - which is where most of them happen anyway.

I just think this would be more efficient - 18:09, August 27, 2011 (UTC)