Forum Re-Organization: Input needed

[not2late]

I've been looking over our forum and I'm beginning to think it needs alittle more organization/structure.

I'm thinking about merging some of the stickies into a big thread or into 2 or 3 category threads. For example: "What is OWL" will include the Introductory thread, The OWL Rules thread and the Carbohydrate Ladder thread. "OWLing 101" would include the Rules again, plus the thread on how to add the carbs, the Power of 5 list. "OWL Trade Secrets" would have the adding more veggies thread, the fat thread, etc.

What do you think?

Do you have any suggestions?

Should we keep it the way it is?

[boonie stomper]

Re: Forum Re-Organization: Input needed

How about separate the OWL from pre-mainenance, merge stickies & clarify (correct) the mistakes on which is which rung and have a sticky for each rung that keeps it simple, gives %'s, an example or two for carryinng it out for a week, and another sticky or thread for Modified OWL?

[dotsamantha]

Re: Forum Re-Organization: Input needed

Both ideas sound great. I would have more input, but I woke up ten minutes ago, lol.

[not2late]

Re: Forum Re-Organization: Input needed

Percentages are hard to do for OWL, because there really isn't a set "Rung 1, 65%, Rung 2, 64%" type thing.

But I see the point with OWL and Pre-Maintenance, but I don't think the PTB (Powers That Be) would split Pre-Maintenance into it's own forum. Pre-Maintenance is like OWL, only you are adding 10 net carbs instead of 5. Perhaps if we have a separate Pre-Maintenance Sticky?

Modified OWL thread/post would be a good idea. I'd like to toss in a "I've fallen and I'm trying to get back" post too.

[2big4mysize]

Re: Forum Re-Organization: Input needed

can you make them into sub forums like Tom did the poker lessons? Say a the inside scoop on doing OWL as the topic and then when you click it it has all the stickie topics ? since the titles are similar it is hard to send folk to the right skickie now. but then all the old topics will have bad links and send them to the front page if you do change any.

[soliwit]

Re: Forum Re-Organization: Input needed

I'm all for it, I think it would be way easier to find things and indeed we should get rid of the mistakes in some of the stickies cause they tend to be very confusing.
But I see why OWL and pre-Maintenance could stay in the same forum, just give it a seperate stickie.
I definitely think it needs a 'clean-up' though.

[not2late]

Re: Forum Re-Organization: Input needed

2Big, I looked at the poker forum...I didn't see any subforums there.

[2big4mysize]

Re: Forum Re-Organization: Input needed

Megs click on the forums in the top left corner of our powerstrip
then scroll down and click on the lessons forum.
At the top you see lessons subforums and poker and low carb cooking lessons are listed as sub forums then below is the threads forum. click on poker lessons and all Tom's threads on poker are in there. click low carb cooking lessons and all naja's and yours are in there. see it?

if you do that with the OWL forum stickies as a sub forum with a title like Everything OWL or trouble understanding chapter 14? click here. then all the moved saved stckies will be in the sub forums and folk coming to the OWL forum will see a nice clean look with the stickies out of site till clicked but the current discussion and question topic threads visible right away

[not2late]

Re: Forum Re-Organization: Input needed

Oh I see what you're talking about now.....I don't know if the PTB would go for that....

[2big4mysize]

Re: Forum Re-Organization: Input needed

hehehe want me to post it in the volunteer board again? I ask for this way back for all the forums cause man some like the diabetic got the whole first page as just stickies. I ask if they could subforum all the same topic FAQs too so all the stix stuff would be in one place and all the how to dos would be in one place and all the waters would be in one place but yiou know how that goes. it takes a long time to get things changed and just cause i see them doesn't mean others do and then I have to confuse everybody with my long explainations of why we need it LOL like getting the OWL forum as a forum back in 03

[boonie stomper]

Re: Forum Re-Organization: Input needed

I think their some good discussion going here, but I agree that maintaining the integrity of links to the forum stickies and threads in pre-reorganization posts should be given attention so they don't become dead ends.