Oh, I don't know. I forget exactly what had happened (or I had seen) that made me think it was something that would only happen in a rural area. Maybe "Country Anecdotes" would be a more descriptive title. Or perhaps "Let Me Scrape This Off'n My Boot And Tell Y'All 'Bout It." (You can tell it's country because of my liberal use of apostrophes to substitute for letters and to form ad-hoc contractions.)
Maybe the best idea is to do away with all the topics and just have one thread that's a free-for-all. Most of them turn out that way anyhow.
Hahaha! It would have to be renamed The Seniors Monkey Cage Club. We would have to get emojis for the feces-throwing contest.
I agree. There are 44 forums already, not counting sub-forums. That's about 4 times as many regularly posting members as we have. And that number is not likely to ever get any larger. Searching by forums is not very helpful, imo, except maybe if you're looking for Games or Cartoons or Music.
You made me go look. >33 forums had comments made within the past week. >5 forums had comments made 1-2 weeks ago. >These 3 had comments made in late June (less than 3 weeks ago): -Evolution of Language (June 29) -Reading & Writing (June 21) -Places I Have Lived (June 24) >Only these have not had a comment made in them in the past 30 days: -Senior Directory Project (October 25, 2020) -Self Employment (April 8) -Senior Employment (May 24) So now that you point it out, that's a very broad range of topics that a handful of folks are posting in. Or perhaps some of the less chatty folks (still waters run deep) are keeping the non-mainstream topics going. But it's fascinating that our interests are so varied that 41 forums have had at least one comment made in them during the past several weeks, with 33 of those being posted in almost daily. And that's just the forum level. I bet that's a ton of threads/topics. While some of the threads may gather dust, none of the forums are. eta: I am on a Mazda owner's forum. The guy is a stickler for No Off-Topic discussions, for Highly Descriptive Thread Titles, and for No Duplicate Threads. He is making it a global technical and user reference site for Mazda owners. I wrote a couple of How-To guides at his request to help folks enjoy themselves yet maintain the integrity. I stopped spending much time there because I like to chat. So absent that kind of control, searching for something specific in a forum like this without a general theme and without aggressive restriction of "approved topics" is gonna be a challenge.
Yeah, good thing these avatars are tiny. (My pic is from 2018 when I joined here; my hair is gray now and looks like a dandelion gone to seed.)