haurni
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Agreed. It's probably worth keeping the current forum name because it's both familiar and all-inclusive. What gets posted in this particular forum and how the sub-forums are structured is another issue...I suggest that the parent forum should be an all inclusive name so that you avoid the dilemma of whether sex talk trumps serious talk or visa versa. Make sex & serious forums both subforums under the umbrella LGBT forum name that you come up with. Examples of catch all names might be like: "All things LGBT", or "Rainbow Room".
Agreed. Particularly important stickies might go here as well, such as "Which subforum is best for you?" (or some other title that doesn't imply that you must post somewhere in particular).One way to handle it would be to make the "GLBT CHAT" link open up to a closed, no-post forum, featuring links to the subforums. The software could do that easily enough.
b. Rename "News and Issues" to "GLBT Discussions" because in the past there hasn't been much news posted and besides that would be the place to discuss it. That we all that has to happen is re-title what we have.
You would be calling "c)" your LGBT Talk. You'd call the sexual subforum "b)" your "Bi gals n guys...". NOTE: You might want to make sure it is understood that Lesbians, Gays, and Trans also put sex talk there. Otherwise, you may end up with sex talk in both b & c. I take it that your goal for the serious sub-forum is that the threads should focus more on relationships, coming out, concerns, rather than consisting mainly of thread after thread of sex talk -- namely penises. All the more reason to make sure that non-bi LGBT know that is appropriate space for them too. Otherwise, you may find there to be too much "penis" talk in the serious subform.
I'm in favour of "GLBT News & Discussion" (or just "GLBT Discussions", "GLBT Talk" or even "GLBT Serious Talk") for conversations on matters that are more related to issues, relationships & practices among GLBT people. This combines the "News & Issues" subforum with what I think is the goal of the "Discussions" subforum as it's being talked about here."Playground" and "Discussion?"
"GLBT Playground" for GLBT people who want to talk mainly about sex.
I still think a "Men who have sex with men (but aren't necessarily gay)" or "MSM Forum" subforum for both discussion & play is a good idea. Without a specific MSM category, the 'straight guy penis talk' will end up in both News & Discussion and Playground categories.
Agreed. The GLBT Personals are right now in the Personals forum and simply for familiarity's sake we might want to keep them there. There could be a link to them in the main GLBT forum.The Personals variations have their own heading but no harm in simply making a permanent link to it someplace
Thus:
GLBT Chatter (empty forum with stickies & links to subforums)
> GLBT Discussions
> GLBT Playground
> MSM Forum
> GLBT Personals (link to subforum of Literotica Personals)
> GLBT Playground
> MSM Forum
> GLBT Personals (link to subforum of Literotica Personals)
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