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Old 04-22-2013, 11:00 AM   #13
Turtle91
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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt View Post
Why don't you guys just create new threads with [Marvin] in the title, if you need new ones?
That same question would then apply to ALL posts in the entire MR forum...

The answer is organization and ease of finding info. If I want to find out everything I can about Sigil for instance, I go to the Sigil sub-forum and then peruse all the thread topics. Some of those topics I would never have found if I didn't know what to look for (or search for).

If I am trying to find out info on Marvin, I don't want to wade through a bazillion posts on how amazon is buying the world and leasing it back; or how to properly use a semi-colon; or how to center an image in an ePub; or how to easily and automatically convert a PDF to ePub; or how apple doesn't want to allow proper use of expanded memory because it would hurt sales, etc.

Seriously though, how hard is it to add a sub-forum? From a forum maintainer's perspective the actual task of adding another line in the list of sub-forums has to be trivial...so it has to come down to "does the topic meet some minimum requirements" to be added. I'm wondering what those requirements are, because it seems that there would be enough interest in Marvin to warrant one.

Does anyone know the answer? Is there even a defined set of requirements? Or is it just when/if a moderator decides it's worth the effort?

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