Poll: Is this the right number of forums?

i'm trying to keep the number of categories as low as possible to keep the discussion concentrated, but this is just a first draft of categories. please give your input for what you'd like to see here, or frum me. thanks!

Perhaps people should be able to create their own forums?

this will happen eventually :-)

there should be a meta-forum, for discussing the forums! :)

you're on a meta-kick today, lawrence :-)

i think the fact that there haven't been many threads yet is confusing. the thing that makes forums different than standard discussions is that a forum has multiple threads, which in turn have multiple messages. you drilled down into a forum with one thread, so you didn't get down into the messages yet. does that make an ounce of sense? :-D

hrm.... it looks ok to me. does anyone else have a problem seeing this (there should be a couple threads showing)?

meta-you meta-say meta-that meta-like meta-it's meta-a meta-bad meta-thing! :)

promises promises. hehe

Primary question: Is the correct term fora?

Secondary question: Would anyone care if it were?

Tertiary question: Will anyone comment on my correct use of the subjunctive form of the word "was" in the secondary question?

Quatrenary question: Would this be appropriate for the random drivel forum? If not, could you give us an example of random drivel? I find occasionally that my drivel, though generated randomly, comes out with a pattern based on multiples of pi. Does that make it ordered drivel? Would its ordered nature preclude it from inclusion on the aforementioned random drivel forum? And if I ordered the drivel, would it come with a side of fries?

While I love just having the forums we now have, I can think of some others that I'd be interested in at least...

-If we have a music one, how about books/tv/movie/art and such. Maybe not even as their own forums, but open it up to culture in general.

-Politics, Religion, and other things you don't talk about at a party. Yeah, this could be asking for a troll, but fr�heads tend to have at least an interest in various philosophy-type-things.

I can think of lots of other forum ideas, but those are the two big ones on my mind right now...

I'm using netscape 4.7, and when I click on Moxy Fruvous, I get a HUGE title that says "MOXY FRUVOUS" without any other titles or discussions. This is definitely a netscape issue because I can see the disussions fine in IE.

I don't have any objections to the books/tv/movie etc one but the Politics or Religion one - well you're opening a can of worms. I've seen majordomo lists killed and major flame wars happen on NGs because of that. (example: once a discussion about the F&FFC concert came up on the wall and it was a discussion, but too many fruheads took slams at others for *their* beliefs). I would definitely not visit the forums if I saw that happening and I Know others wouldn't either.

I would stick to something less controversial. Josh doesn't need to hire any more babysitters on FHDC than he already has.