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Could be retitled Family Thread or Psychology or Sociology Thread (to create a place for more sophisticated discussion)
Had Each Post Prefaced with 18-25, 26-50 or Over 50 (because it seems so many of the posts are about the dating issues of teenagers or extremely young and immature adults . . .it is tedious to click on thread after thread and hear someone whining about why they can't get a date, the guy who just dumped them or whatever . . .
Could be retitled Family Thread or Psychology or Sociology Thread (to create a place for more sophisticated discussion)
Had Each Post Prefaced with 18-25, 26-50 or Over 50 (because it seems so many of the posts are about the dating issues of teenagers or extremely young and immature adults . . .it is tedious to click on thread after thread and hear someone whining about why they can't get a date, the guy who just dumped them or whatever . . .
I understand what you mean, but I can't see it happening. You can tell from the titles of many of the threads whether they're going to have a less mature, sophomoric audience. If you want to start some new discussions for older audiences, you could include your preferred age group in the thread title.
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Since human relationships are all about emotions I don't know if there is a good way to separate all the various age groups and their age related needs.
Then there is the anonymity of the internet that makes it tough to gage the audience or the person posting.
I've tripped up on both of these problems a time or two when I responded.......
I can certainly see the OP's point and a name change for the forum could be in order. The Relationships forum does seem to attract more of a younger or socially immature crowd.
I think it might be beneficial to simply change the name of the forum from "Relationships" to something like "Family / Social Relationships" or else "Social Dynamics". That would indicate that the forum covers a broader range of topics about societal dynamics and demographics. There is only one other forum on the board that's about family dynamics and that's the Parenting board which only qualifies for discussions about children and parenting situations.
Sub-forums for different categories of topic might be helpful but it may also create more work for the moderator, and it need not be necessary. The topic titles generally already give a very good idea of what each topic is about and when one hovers the cursor over a topic title you get that little window pops up where you can read the first couple of sentences to see a fuller explanation of what the topic is really about. So an OP could put right in their opening sentence that it's related to Friendship, Dating, Divorce, Marriage, Inlaws, Family, Employers, Co-workers, etc.
What about breaking the relationship forum into subforums such as:
Friendship
Dating
Divorce
Marriage
Inlaws (LOL)
That worked well for many years on the Miss Manners forum.
While something like "Social Dynamics" might work on a more formal, scholarly board, people here are just a bunch of posters wanting to *** Informal terms would probably be more attractive.
I think it might be beneficial to simply change the name of the forum from "Relationships" to something like "Family / Social Relationships" or else "Social Dynamics". That would indicate that the forum covers a broader range of topics about societal dynamics and demographics. There is only one other forum on the board that's about family dynamics and that's the Parenting board which only qualifies for discussions about children and parenting situations.
Being an active participant of the parenting forum, I'll attest to the fact that many relationship issues get posted there simply because there isn't an appropriate crowd for mature responses in the relationship forum.
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Originally Posted by Zoisite
Sub-forums for different categories of topic might be helpful but it may also create more work for the moderator, and it need not be necessary. The topic titles generally already give a very good idea of what each topic is about and when one hovers the cursor over a topic title you get that little window pops up where you can read the first couple of sentences to see a fuller explanation of what the topic is really about. So an OP could put right in their opening sentence that it's related to Friendship, Dating, Divorce, Marriage, Inlaws, Family, Employers, Co-workers, etc.
This made me chuckle! Enforcing dictated thread title guidelines would be much more work on moderators than extra subforums. I was an administrator of a very large debate site. I made all sorts of mistakes like that in my early years. Extra forums don't really create more work in the beginnng. It's not a "if you build it, they will come" sort of venture. Some forums take off, some never do. It's best to slowly add subforums, like CD already does for many of the main forum headings.
Would subdividing the forum mitigate the issues? Inept is inept. Inept or immature seems to be the crux of the issue in the relationship section. Or what most of the discussions are based on.
I have a heavy handed solution to remedy it. I do think that some subdivisions might be prudent. It seems the discussions run in cycles.
What about people never participating on a given forum refraining for suggestions about changes on it?!
The point of the this thread is that a segment of participates are driving other people away. That's how my input is relevant.
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Informal terms would probably be more attractive.
