Thread: [Poll] Rearrangement of offtopic

Currently the off topic has subjects that are quite general (cars etc etc). Stuff that we do not really care about and are just there to boost post count. Even to the extent that they may be there just to be there. A useless forum that exists only because other forums have them as well.

What I want to do is to dissolve them into general discussion and instead put up new forums that are more interesting "offtopic"

Stuff like...

Employment - Stuff about graduate programs, resume refining etc etc

Eduction - University discussion. Which is better. Study habits.

Bargains - Cheap deals on the internet. How to build a awesome computer at cheapest prices.

(Feel free to suggest more)

+10 Dave, Fing excellent idea. I never even open the tiddle taddle section at the moment.

Yeah, that's a good idea, but I think that while cars and mobile phones subforums are really unnecessary and should be dissolved I think that other subforums (Computers, Movies and TV, Music and Games) should be kept (only I believe that Video Games and Forum Games should have separate subforums because it's a bit of a mess the way it currently is) and new useful and interesting subforums could be added alongside Computers, Movies and TV, Music, Video Games and Forum Games, because honestly while everyone can talk about those subjects, stuff like employment, education and bargains can only be discussed by the small amount of people that leave in the same area and a large number of TI users isn't American...

Dave, this is an awesome idea! More 'interesting' offtopic + TI v2, this community is just getting better and better

Well i would like to recall one of the suggestions which were in the suggestions section that there should be section named "Internet" as in Computers section we cannot talk about like Sites .. So this section would be really awesome as in this section people can talk about the internet freely .. the section for computers is bound to software and hardware to if there can be section of Internet i would really be happy :)

Being new, it actually took a while for me to get used to where/how the non-torrent/tracker forums are setup.

I'd Rename the Off-Topic section to General Discussion.
Put Games, Films, Music, Technology, Sport (scrap Cars and Phones) onto the level where Tiddle Taddle is currently at.
Add new: Politics, Education and one called Off-Topic where the stuff that doesn't fit into the others goes.

Then migrate the topics from the current General into the above General subforums which would be visible in a category on the top level forum navigation.

Beautiful idea, i absolutely agree with everyone this place is getting better minute by minute. I love the new off-topic stuff like the education and employment as i am in my final year and its interesting to have those sections.

I would be sad to see the movie/music/games disappear, maybe merge the three into: Entertainment

Then I support the rest of the idea.

^^ I agree - I'd like to see an Entertainment section made, so that those three topics would not be left for dead.