Two Ideas

1. I think we should move all the current thread into like an archive or something so we can start over. I feel like every single thread possible has been made already. I think it would be fun to start over in a way. I'm guessing that the majority of members here will be against this, but its a thought.

2. Start a "Best of Talkfreelance" forum. They have one of these at another forum I post at, and the moderators there move all the best, funny, and fun threads to it. It's pretty fun, and new members can see what the communities all about easily. Thats what got me registered at this other forum and posting.

Let me know what you guys think, not just the staff, but other members too.

1. Hmm. Archiving and pruning of some forums is a good idea, i.e. Marketplace.

2. In essence what you're suggesting could be done with the rate thread function.. if anyone actually used it. (:

I like your first suggestion about starting a fresh and putting them into an archive. I hope we can work something out for that.

Thanks for the suggestions, we always appreciate some good ideas!

I think the only things that really need to be archived are anything that's "deprecated" and even then there aren't any forums and/or subforums that fit under that. I could see if we had something like "Windows XP Mods/Support" or something then sure, archive that.

Just think that having all of the other threads as-is is fine.

I don't see the necessity or even the gain in doing #1. All I could see it accomplishing is making the forum look smaller, which is a bad thing. Unless you can clarify why you think this would be beneficial to the forum I don't see any reason for it.

As for the second, I guess if it gets more members its a good idea.

I don't see the necessity or even the gain in doing #1. All I could see it accomplishing is making the forum look smaller, which is a bad thing. Unless you can clarify why you think this would be beneficial to the forum I don't see any reason for it.

Marketplace for example. Threads are usually relevant for a short period before becoming redunant. They should be pruned or achived.

While on the subject of ideas. The forum structure could do with some tweaking. A good portion of forums are inactive.

Marketplace needs pruning in my opinion...

Other than that... Nah... No point... People would just post the same stuff again and theres some stuff people would have linked to from their websites, other forums and essentially Google has ranked up... It would lose all of its ranking and hits.

On the flip side of pruning the Marketplace, people would lose their iTrader feedback threads (not that the system isn't flawed.)

Just throwing it out there.

I agree with Village Genius, it's just going to make the forums look smaller. Many people come here for the marketplace only. If it gets pruned and the thread and post counts lower dramatically, I see that as being a big turn-off for new members.