I've reread everything again. Then I looked at the 5 main forums. On each forum I went back 5 pages.
NEWS and GENERAL DISCUSSIONS are really quite clean. Of course newbes will put their post in the wrong place from time to time. I'm sure that some of my posts may have been a little off.
The other 3 have pretty much what their title says. Deals on books, book recommendations, and writers talking about their books.
While I really would like a "Vampire and Mummy Romance" section
I think that I was wrong at the other end. Yes, a section for the introduction of new books would make it easier for me to seek and find new authors/books. But I'll bow out of that discussion and leave THAT topic to real authors.
The idea of a symbol to signal "new book" might be a good alternative.
Whether he was trolling for new customers or just misguided the recent poster shouting "
Hey, everybody, Look At My Web Site" kind of ticked me off. The poster of "
Do readers frequent the forums?" was a newbe and I just don't know if his last post was for real, or just a joke.
If you remove new books from the other 3 forums and place them in a new forum what will the other 3 become? Certainly not very lively.