Divide up Religion Forum?

[Caecilian]

The Religion forum is by far and away the most active section of the site- it has nearly twice as many posts as any of the other sections.

And another thing: We seem to be getting a lot of new members. So we can expect more posts, especially in Religion.

I'm wondering whether it might be a good idea to divide up Religion into two or more forums. For example, we might have 'General Religious Issues', 'Christianity' and 'Other Religions'. It could make navigating the forums a bit easier.

[Darwinian]

Seems reasonable to me but, you'll have to ask the boss man

[Caecilian]

One thing that mildly concerns me is the speed with which threads get demoted to page 2 of the Religion Forum, and consequently get forgotten. Currently, if a thread doesn't get a comment for c. 5 days, its on the second page. That isn't very long.

[Mr Camel]

I like the idea

[British_Atheist]

Or you could do this: -

General Religion Discussion with these in it: -

General Religion

God Talk

The Bible

Philosophy

Morality and Laws

Science and Religion

Religious Art
Paintings, Drawings, Poetry, Etc.
Sub Forums: Paintings, Drawings, Etc., Music, Films, Literature, Poetry

Numbers
Numbers and how they relate to belief systems and religion 40 511 1+1=3

Religions of the World

Christianity
Sub Forums: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican, Others 265 3,789 How many..

Islam
Sub Forums: Sunni, Shia

Hinduism

Judaism

Agnostic

Spiritualism

Polytheism

Afro-Caribbean

Atheism

Or somethng like this?

[Eilonnwy]

We do not need that many subforums. D:

[British_Atheist]

I mean't something like that, don't have to have that many subforums Eilonnwy, just take couple out of that and transfer them onto the forums.

[chasm]

Or you could do this: -

General Religion Discussion with these in it: -

General Religion

God Talk

The Bible

Philosophy

Morality and Laws

Science and Religion

Religious Art
Paintings, Drawings, Poetry, Etc.
Sub Forums: Paintings, Drawings, Etc., Music, Films, Literature, Poetry

Numbers
Numbers and how they relate to belief systems and religion 40 511 1+1=3

Religions of the World

Christianity
Sub Forums: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican, Others 265 3,789 How many..

Islam
Sub Forums: Sunni, Shia

Hinduism

Judaism

Agnostic

Spiritualism

Polytheism

Afro-Caribbean

Atheism

Or somethng like this?

There is already an Atheism section, so we are good there. And there's already Philosophy and Science sections.

Polytheism
Subforms: Hinduism; Old Greek/Roman Gods, Other Polytheistic Religions

Monotheism
Subforms: Christianity/Catholicism; Islam; Judaism; Pastafarianism; Other Monotheistic Religions

General Religion Discussion:
Subforms: General; Religious Texts; Deity Talk; Morality, Laws, and other Misc. things

That's how I think it should look....

[Minimalist]

1. Atheism

2. Religious Bullshit

3. Everything Else.

[Caecilian]

1. Atheism

2. Religious Bullshit

3. Everything Else.

Thats sorta what we have at the moment. My concern is that the 'religious bullshit' section is too big. Experience shows that if a thread goes off the front page, its dead- thats a general rule thats true of all forums everywhere. The way things are, threads are going dead too quickly imo, and given that we're attracting new members all the time its only gonna get worse.

The rational solution seems to me to divide up the religion forum into maybe 3-5 subforums.

The fact that this has become an issue is a tribute to the success of the site. If there weren't so many new threads, there wouldn't be a problem.