Forum Reorganization

[Flipper3]

I was just looking over the forums and all and thought that it all looks really cluttered and the majority of the posts are towards the top because people don't feel like scrolling down (like me).

So therefore, I believe that the forums should be reorganized to not only be a lot easier to navigate, but to look better and improve the activity AND to appeal to new members.

Well, I took the time to reorganize them a little to what I believe they should be. Please post your comments/suggestions on how to make my reorganization idea even better (this includes wording).

Hopefully SHAdmin likes this idea because I just can't stand seeing a cluttered forum. :/

Here is my idea of how to reorganize the forum:

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[delivi]

wow thats a great idea.

i agree with Flipper3 that the forum is cluttered. the organisation provided by Flipper3 looks neat and great.

SHAdmin will definitely consider this and make the necessary changes in the forum.

[iBye]

I also agree on this, Its sometimes very hard and tricky to find what you are looking for and also where to put your threads. I like the structure you have there and are hoping SHadmin will consider it.

[Flipper3]

Thanks guys; I put a lot of work into it.....but I know that mine isn't perfect so there must be SOME kind of suggestion/change to make.

Now we just have to hope that SHAdmin likes it.

[SHAdmin]

Thank you for the great suggestion regarding the cluttered layout of the forums 'Flipper3'.

As soon as possible i will get to work and reorganise the forums.

[TheCrymsonLegends]

I have somewhat of a disagreement in the cluttered forums idea. The only things I see wrong with it is the Make Money Online forum and the Holiday Forums. Holidays could show that Smokyhosts follows certain religions and with the mass number of holidays with each religion it could be a large sub-forum database to be able to cover them all. Since religion, politics, and cultural talk could spark up a controversy I'd suggest against using them in the forums. Just because the members talk about it doesn't mean a professional webhosting business should encourage any such posts which could cause arguments.

Also the Make Money Online is a good scam type of thing and even using Google Adsense or any type of ads to make money using certain types of websites couldn't prove very useful anyway. I think it's a bad idea in itself since it could be providing false hopes and dreams to making money as I doubt anyone here actually makes millions so any of the methods havn't been confirmed and would just be spam in itself.

Other than those two things I think it's a nice method to use since it does simplify things somewhat. Nice job Flipper3.

[SHAdmin]

The Forum has been reorganised to the best that i thought it would be keeping in mind the inputs from Flipper3 and TheCrymsonLegends.

Feel free to comment.