Beagle - 2:32 pm on Dec 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

goldminer - LOL

Besides my own tiny site forum, I've just been asked (and accepted, silly me) to mod on a very active forum I've been a part of for a few years - long enough to see that process a number of times. As an "old-timer" I've occasionally suggested a new thread be started, and sometimes even started it myself, if an interesting side discussion gets going that I don't want to see disappear with "well, let's get back on topic." (The forum uses flat threads.)

On the large forum, it often means moving the discussion to a different subforum, which can be amazingly difficult for folks who've found a "home" and don't want to venture into foreign territory. I explain that there are other people on the board who'd be interested in the topic, so let's put the discussion where they'll be looking for it. Most people will follow if they're really interested - and maybe even find something else in that "other" subforum that they want to paricipate in.