Bob Sihler wrote:The question now is this: create a separate forum, make a subforum in the regional forums, or put a sticky thread in each regional forum?
SP members, please respond.
The only thing I'll offer right now is that based on the experience with making Classifieds a subforum of Gear, subforums don't work well because they may not be obvious to the user due to the layout. Making a separate forum for Classifieds seems to be working much better.
I don't think the sticky thread option would work Bob. I think it would be critical that multiple threads are involved... all this couldn't be going on in one thread, even if it was one thread for each region. Each person who wanted to visit an area or do a particular trip might want to start their own thread.
Perhaps a seperate set of regional forums? Based on your experience with the classifieds, which would be one option, I see two remaining ones... I don't really have a preference.
Lay it out like this:
Regional Forums:California
California Plans and Partners
Canada
Canada Plans and Partners
Colorado
Colorado Plans and Partners
etc...
or this
Regional ForumsCalifornia
Canada
Colorado
etc...
Planning ForumsCalifornia Plans and Partners
Canada Plans and Partners
Colorado Plans and Partners
etc...
(edited for grammar)