New sections?

Well i had an idea a while back but it got turned down but ill post the link again anyway: http://emptyclosets.com/forum/showthread.php?t=476 but i may or may not be the only one who keeps up with such topics lol. But maybe if there was a thread to it or if ppl started to post about it then they too might try and keep up with such current events?

Some other ideas just off the top of my head:

-Sexual Health & Wellbeing
-Religion/Spirituality
-Straights (for those odd few who may come here to help a friend etc. you dont want them to feel unwelcome cuz i doubt they want to go into "chit-chat for gay guys and girls)

 

Proud, I really like your ideas. One query I have though is whether or not they are too "narrow". For instance, at the moment, there arent that many posts here on EC relating *directly* Religion etc. So one concern would be the created forum would be rather empty. I like the concept though, and I believe it would work if/when EC attracts a larger amount of members.

That being said, I do like the idea of sexual Health, since the forum itself would spark discussions and encourage others to talk about "that sort of stuff".

Also, we're currently discussing changes to the Chit Chat sub text, as was suggested by you, to be more inviting than just "gay guys and girls". I think creating a Straight exclusive forum would isolate them from the rest of the discussion, which they are most certainly welcome to take part in.

 

I think that keeping most things in the Chit Chat forum would be beneficial because having very specific forums or subforums tends to create "dead space."

 

i think thats true too because in other forums they have alot of different bits and no one has really posted anything

 

Chrisg and Hakeem: that's exactly the reason why we haven't created sub forums to date. However, as you know, there's been a lot of "favorite movie" or "gay books" threads, and we thought it would be neat to add in a new forum for such discussion. Right now, name ideas for this sort of forum are "Entertainment Chat" or "Books, Movies and Gaming".

Can you guys think of a better name for an entertainment chat forum?

 

funny area?
lol

 

what about Sexual Health like what proud 2b gay said they have them in other forums that i have seen

 

Yeah i get what you're saying.. was just an idea.. ive seen alot of dicussion amongst me and my gay/trans/bi/lesbian etc. friends about homo/bi/trans/sexuality and how it mixes with religions and thought that maybe ppl would have the same dicussions here.. not only about the mixing of the two but also current politics of religion (yeah thats where i lost most ppl, "politics"...whoot *sarcasim*) even when not relating to sexualities.. but honestly i havent seen much or even any of these threads started in this forum.. so its understandible why it would be empty.. no hard feelings

Yeah i can see how that would happen but i thought that most straights would be intimidated to go under our current chit chat forum. but hey its up to you guys how and how not to run this place haha.. again no hard feelings

 

so Paul have u thought of what u are going?

 

to do

sorry about that

 

Yay! (here's some more stuff cuz it says "yay" is too short to be a post blah blah blah blah)

 

wow that great!

 

well do!

 

Whoot for the new "Health and Wellbeing" sub-forum. Hopefully it'll be used from time-to-time. Oh, and for the new 20 smilies instead of 15. And for the minimum message character being lowered to 3. All i have to say to that is....