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I thought I would ask you all your opinions on something. Recently I had a request from a member here to create a separate forum for him that would be his own. Basically his own message board within this message board. I believe I can make a member a moderator and restrict moderator powers only to that forum, but honestly I'm not real sure on that.
My reservations on this are that it could make things messy. If this member wants to start a discussion on optics within his own forum, then what about the forum here that already is about that topic? Some new user wanting to find information on optics might not have any idea about looking within this sub message board about such topics.
But on the up side, maybe it would be fun for members to have their own little sub universe here. A place where they can control the flow of messages and do as they please within that area. Unfortunately a member would not have the capability to create, delete, or edit actual subforums within their area (at least I don't think so... I haven't checked out ALL of the capabilities of this new version of this message board).
So I'm sitting on the fence on this idea and thought I would try to get some feedback about this idea. Perhaps a trial basis might be worthwhile?
Anyway let me know what you think.
Thanks.
My reservations on this are that it could make things messy. If this member wants to start a discussion on optics within his own forum, then what about the forum here that already is about that topic? Some new user wanting to find information on optics might not have any idea about looking within this sub message board about such topics.
But on the up side, maybe it would be fun for members to have their own little sub universe here. A place where they can control the flow of messages and do as they please within that area. Unfortunately a member would not have the capability to create, delete, or edit actual subforums within their area (at least I don't think so... I haven't checked out ALL of the capabilities of this new version of this message board).
So I'm sitting on the fence on this idea and thought I would try to get some feedback about this idea. Perhaps a trial basis might be worthwhile?
Anyway let me know what you think.
Thanks.