You two, jazz and jundogg, are maybe right and if we were starting this board from the very beginning I'd most likely be right with you on it. But when things are established and people are relatively happy with how things are then sometimes I think the best course of action is just to try your best working around or tweaking what already works.
Jazz, you brought up how forums are like buildings with elevators and I agree. I like to use forums are like different house parties on the same block, but you can fit this to a building with elevators too. So let's pretend the group of OOTPX online league boards is one small house party. Someone walks in and they're instantly in the biggest room of the house where most of the people are congregating and chatting it up. The prevalent topic just happens to be trying to match up would-be managers with leagues. Now the house also has two smaller rooms in the rear of the building where people go to talk too: one being the kitchen where the commissioners go to talk recipes and one is the dining room where managers like to sit down and talk about different things (the bedroom is private).
Everything works relatively well, except some in living room feel that a certain topic is too off-topic and that it's interrupting the important business of league-manager matching. So now we've got some (or one, I don't know) saying (again, I'm not sure), "Please, just kick them out of here! Or at least ask them to go to the dining room or build another room, but do something".
Then we've got some in the dining room saying, "you know, everyone would benefit if strategy was talked more so really we should move to living room and those just looking to conduct business should move here". Those people probably have a very good point, but the more just-business people certainly aren't going to like that idea (they certainly threw a fit when we first built the dining room and brought up that maybe that's where they should then go) and seeing as how there's a lot more of them it probably wouldn't make much sense to put them in a smaller room anyway. Now we could build another large room (new small or large rooms luckily don't cost much different in our example) to put the just-business people in, but we just can't change the fact (it's cost-prohibitive) that the front entrance opens to the original living room so the just-business people would have to go to the back of the house to the new large room if it was built and they're a very picky bunch so they probably wouldn't like that one bit neither.
So the property manager ( :waves: ) says, "okay, well, let's try to solve this in a way that's likely to please people the most / piss off people the least". Telling the mainly just-business people to go to another room is likely to just be a big headache so let's forget about that for now. These few people looking to gauge interest in their league ideas do deserve a place to ask for input and they do deserve to feel welcome.
The question is then: is where they are good enough or should they be moved to the dining room with the more general conversation or should a new room be made for them? Luckily we're very rich and can easily afford it, but unfortunately the only construction company in town is usually very busy and sometimes we get the impression they'd rather not be bothered by such small job requests.
That's how I see it. And if I can get advice in answer to that question then that'd be great.
Let's set a target date of October 1st for making the decision whatever it may be.
P.S. I hope you liked my story.
