Feedback Requested: Forum Cleanup

Here we go!

- The Announcements Board for all important site manager announcements

- The Bug Board for reporting issues

- A general "On Topic" board for all discussion, articles, etc., related to the site's setting or theme. I think most of the first three forums, save Civic Festhall, could be merged into this. Definitely the first two boards

- An "on topic" "creative endeavors" board for fiction, art, etc. This board is strictly for literary, artistic, and similar pursuits. If you're posting about a site, a cutter, a faction, etc., you go to the general Planescape board. If you're writing a piece of fiction or drawing a picture, it goes in this creativity board- A "general gaming" board for all non-Planescape gaming. General 3.x/4e, Pathfinder, White Wolf, whatever other gaming topics would go here.

- An "off topic" forum for discussion about almost anything. A lot of sites I've seen limit what you can actually talk about here (i.e., no politics or religion) and I think this is a good idea - especially in a place like this where we have some pretty peaceful philosophical discussions beyond the scope of our world. My opinion is that we don't need real-world politics here and if people want to discuss them, they can go to a political site

- The requisite gaming boards for PbP gaming. As a side note, I think the Sensorium board could probably fit in the "on topic fiction" board.

- Some sites (like FoS) have a forum dedicated to site projects and community projects. A site project would be the 4e Planescape Setting, while a community project would be if someone decided to create, say, "Arborea: The Campaign Setting" or "Professor Thomas Carter's Notes on the Lower Planes" or "Angels, Aasimon, and Aasimar, a Book on Celestials" or whatnot. I think these kinds of boards would be useful to Planewalker.

I would clear out and archive pretty much any section board that hasn't seen consistent activity for a certain amount of time. Some of these boards haven't gotten a post in over a year. Keep them accessible, of course. I just think we shouldn't have them on the front forum page anymore. I think it makes the forums look empty.

Also, if at all possible to include on the forum index, a brief description of the forum would be useful. I don't work in drupal so I donno if you can put the description on like phpBB and SMF do. If you can't, I think each forum should have a sticky post explaining what it's for and what posts go there.

Give or take a few boards from my above list as the site seems to warrant. I'd definitely keep announcements at the top so they're not missed. With what's left, I think it will help tremendously to be explicit and clear about what goes in each forum.