homersimpson_esq
Posts: 19969
Joined: 30/9/2005 From: Springfield
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ORIGINAL: richCie the empire book club was good for a awhile but there just werent enough people involved. Aye. plus I kinda stopped putting up suggestions for new books... With regards to the changing usernames thing, why not instigate an ebay-style system? For a period of a week/two weeks/whatever, the subtitle would be "Formerly homersimpson_esq", or whatever the previous username was. Since only mods can change the subtitle it would be an easily done thing, should name changes become possible. It would stop the trolls from doing it - especially if name changes had to be done via a mod, like the subtitle changes do now. Plus by having a thread for it, it would make the requests public which would further reduce the likelihood of abuse. Then after the week/fortnight/etc, the person who requested a username change could put a request for a regular subtitle, or it could be automated to change after that time period, just like it changes automatically after x posts for those who don't elect to have a personal subtitle. Course, I have no idea how easy these automated things would be, but I don't see huge swathes of people wanting to change their usernames - just those few who, as rgirvan44 said (not an easily abbreviated username, hence the desire for change I suspect!) signed up with relatively little thought for a distinctive name. I think the idea of having the Golden Oldies and Foreign Film sections as subforums of Movie Musings makes sense. As does limiting Review threads to forum members. Knowledge Base is a general forum, and would be more appropriate as an Off Topic sub forum. Bookworms, Joypad, Audiophile and Grandstand, could be grouped together as Other Entertainment, or some other catchier name and might get more traffic that way. Not grouped as one forum mind, else the dreaded page 2 would be reached too fast, but as one forum grouping akin to "On Another Note", etc. Special Forums are pretty much redundant, except for reading nicholsonmhead's book reviews... I think reducing the number of forums seen on the main page is significant. At present we have 32 forum lines, and that's quite daunting. By removing the Special Forums, putting DVD Club as a subforum of DVD Discussion and Soundtrack as a subforum of Audiophile, by putting GOlden Oldies and World Cinema as subforums of Movie Musings, it would reduce it to 24 by my calculations. It could possibly be reduced further still, but I'm not sure how at the moment. I'll give these and other things some more thought and probably post again.
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