Perhaps creating a temporary forum section in A-O in which SLF refugees can "migrate" their media to, and then sort out at a later time may help with the immediacy issue of SLF shutting down.
not a bad idea, will have to look into it, Thank You
I see. You moderate the media section all by yourself?
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I thought it had potential. There are some great images there. I agree about the spam but wouldn't you get the same spammers populate the forum with the same things, if it gets popular enough? The solution seems to be more moderators.
But I digress.
With all due respect, If I may be so presumptuous, I would reorganize the main categories of AO into the following (see attached). I'm catching flak from the wife for doing this on a sunday instead of spending time with her and the kids
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actually I do not moderate it, I get posts in IRC and PM's and through reports, I do not moderate most sections I just deal with them
not sure if a lot of organisation is require, it is a case of getting used to how things are named, some things may not be able to be done, because of the way it is linked
and it may take a lot of downtime to sort to put it another way, and our own members will feel they have been left out to dry
I like it. The Gravure and JAV discussion groups are disjointed in their locations now, your proposal fixes this. Logically if someone joins who wants to talk about JAV, those related JAV topics should all be listed together. Also it should be a given this is an 18+ site, no need to actually group it as such like is done now as if there needs to be a kids friendly zone here, again your proposal fixes this.
To add my own suggestions, I'd place the active and popular discussion groups at the top since you want to foster that as I believe most users lurk and download and don't actually participate in discussions, this can help solve that. You can put the download groups (torrent/direct downloads) somewhere in the middle or towards the bottom as I imagine it's what gets the most clicks. Like a supermarket that sells milk, you can place it all the way in the back as people will seek it out and they'll go through the rest of the store in the process to find it, hopefully buying more things in the process (in our case it would be participating in the topics).
IMO the Skybox and Help & Guidance topics should be joined and placed at the bottom, while the topics in them are important, the topics covered aren't that active and really only people interested in forum issues or that need help will want to dig for help and click on them. Any really important board announcements should be announced by a banner at the top (like how SLF is announcing their closure) or by a message sent to the user's inbox as it can't be assumed everyone checks the announcements group every visit for announcements.
Lastly, I'd consider culling some of the less popular groups that don't relate to A-O's core audience of JAV/Gravure/Adult fans. You could then add topics that do related to this audience but which aren't currently represented as malmal1 has done with the Asian Angels grouping.
first of all this is a English speaking Japanese board, it was never designed for the rest of Asia, so not sure what Asian Angels are, they may not be allowed here
the other problem for most of you, is how things are done, and the order things are in, I hardly ever use the home page for forum listings, I just look at alerts first, and on average over a 100 day, sometimes over 200, and it is simple from there.
we do not make that many announcements, and if they are important, you will see it, when you sign in, and if we add to the banned list, the rules will cover it,
Cull what areas?