Thoughts on consolidating the forum?

[The Dharma Bum]

[eric]

[The Dharma Bum]

Man you are dense. People that already know the website by name are not new traffic and aren't who SEO should target.

If someone types in a specific key word related to one of the sites categories and or discussions the results might reveal some relevant information or dialogue that may attract new users to browse the site. That is the point of SEO. That is the point of having categories that impart some idea to a search engine what type of information they contain. This creates relevancy to the user.

Nonspecific categories or irrelevant categories are useless in this regard.

But whatever. I use view active topics and don't pay much attention to the categories. Why they would ever annoy anyone is beyond me. Their only purpose is to classify content in a manner that makes the information easily accessible via search engine.

[eric]

[Stratego]

Can we keep the sub-forums but add the ability to "mirror" a thread into multiple sub-forums? This would give PCF a unique feature that other forums don't have. For example if you're debating the political implications of adopting a religious stance, the link to the thread would appear both in politics and religion.

[eric]

[The Dharma Bum]

[eric]

[Stratego]

[eric]

The goal is to simplify, and create a better user experience. While this may "solve the problem" it is detrimental to the goal, and is incompatible.

Also, the other "problem" isn't a problem.