Star Trek

I personally wouldn’t be here if ten forward did not exist. I am a big fan of trek been watching since the 70’s I find it fun to be here with like minded individuals. The suggestions offered within certain subgroups seem reasonable to me.

????  Where in my post did I say that any sub-forum should be less moderated?  All I said about a political/religious sub-forum is that it would possibly be a couple of good choices for threads that could be moveed from 10-F, since it can tend to take over the other threads like the food, hobby, sports discussions, and be made into a sub-forum.

In a way, I'm agreeing with what you said earlier about having food, hobby and sports threads.  It's just that those two types of threads ( politics and religion ) tend to bury the other types of threads.

I also don't think they should do away with 10-F.  It's a good forum!!  My opinion is that the politics/religious threads can sometimes derail other threads there and they can and do tend to get quite heated and if they are moved to a 10-F sub-forum then there should be a friendly reminder that those topics tend to have heated discussions so it would be 'viewer be warned'.

I've seen other MBs do that and have subforums for politics and religion.  I've even seen other MBs have a forum strictly called 'Discussions/Debates' for those very types of threads.  They are still moderated, but members go into those threads knowing before hand that some one may not agree with them and debates may get heated.  Nastyness and down right threats are taken care of by Admin and warnings are given with bannings following if others cannot behave.

I'm all for any possible future sub-forums to be fully moderated, just like the regular forums should be fully moderated.  My only thoughts on sub-forums is that it makes the flow of the regular forums easier to navigate by moving a few threads into a sub-forum.  Just my POV is all

I can't imagine a forum that encourages people to behave badly would turn out well.    People seem capable of some supremely bad behaviour on this site. 

I've seen other boards seperate politics/religion from a general forum and it seems to work.  Mostly by having those in a seperate sorum/sub-forum then people have to make the choice to enter that forum and post.  And they would be 'alerted' to the fact that debates there could get heated.  I don't mean that people in those threads should get away with death threats and being very nasty, just that debating there could get heated, meaning that some replies might get to the point of being just on the line of getting nasty but not actually getting to that point.  Close, but not crossing that line.

I enjoy a good debate!  But I don't like it when people have to resort to threats or name calling to try and make their point/argument.

Okie, 'nuff said on that topic ^_^  I hope I explained myself good enough.  Of course some people are only happiest when they are complaining I guess.  :: shrugs shoulders ::

yes!

I didn't know what had any sub-boards. Just the 17 or so main boards.

I agree more sub-boards would make it more user friendly especially in locating some of the threads.

In general I dont find this site very user friendly at all and if it wasnt for the people here I may have given up before getting used to it. Hopefully things will improve as time goes on.

Check out how well this board is divided up and the cool little communicator icons:

http://www.trekbbs.com/

check out these cool little communicator icons made by one of our members. 

http://arch-angels.biz/search/?c=5

actually check out the theme selector at the bottom of the board.  Very proud of the variety of choices in there. 

Equally cool, Wissa.  I love those little details that deepen the trek experience.

I wouldn't mind some sub groups. It would help organize the boards a bit better. That and it would be easier to find certain subjects.