Dear FORUM administrators,

[el duder]

I know I am only 27 posts/years old, but have you ever thought that the forum is only devided into 5 Main categories ? This seems like a waaay to little for highly visited forum ( the views are not created automatically right ? ) .

These sections can be further subdivided into categories - Say Accounting - Umbrella , Ltd , Ir35. , and Technical - MS , VB , SQL , ISA (and yeah Linux if someone is still doing that - just kiddin ) and so on.

Such a categorization shall decrease the redundancy of posts as it will be easier for ppl to find what they need. Currently a post is out of direct sight ( the first 1 -2 pages ) within a day.

Come on developers back me up , some one may hit a contract !

Who do you think you are?

[Xenophon]

Who do you think you are?

[stackpole]

Agree with the replies, keep it simple.

tulipe99 is a pain up the arse to use. And IT Contractor.

2UK, are you a permie manager by any chance?

[expat]

I know I am only 27 posts/years old, but have you ever thought that the forum is only devided into 5 Main categories ? This seems like a waaay to little for highly visited forum ( the views are not created automatically right ? )

ISTM that this is not a bad suggestion; but in the end it is wrong (and the subject has been discussed before).

Quite simply, a detailed division is appropriate for some forum sites, but not here: the current division fits what the users like to do.

"Technical" is not hyperactive: split it into Linux etc and it'd look like a graveyard.
Business and Acct: again, you never know who might see something and reply. If each were 4 or 5 forums, nobody would ever visit them all, and the range of replies would sink.

General is where we all hang out. That's what we want: it's gossip and chat. All together. In fact people regularly post in General something that really belongs in another forum, just so that everybody sees it; furthermore, this behaviour is rarely slagged off, because we understand (and being slagged off is easily achieved here).

So in short, General where we all come all the time; plus a small number of specific but broad divisions.

Admin: why not try a narrowcasting forum or 2, to see how it goes down? Say:
General - hotel recommendations
Contracts - Going direct
Technical - SQL

But personally I think the motor of these forums is the collection of regulars who are on all the time, and chat about anything with everybody.

[realityhack]

I would add a couple of categories like "first timer advice" and FAQs as we do seem to get asked the same stuff over and over again.

Seconded

[expat]

I would add a couple of categories like "first timer advice" and FAQs as we do seem to get asked the same stuff over and over again.

New people wouldn't read them. There is already a First Timers guide and a host of useful Sticky threads at the top of the boards, but people wade right in with the same old questions without reading these.

[Cactus]

No way! Other sites that try and do this are a pain up the arse to use.

Look at the PCG site - yesterday I visited there to see if they were discussing Labour's latest tax raid on contractors, as flagged by Tony English here, and I searched half a dozen of their forums before giving up.

So no:

1. You never be sure where anything is, especially with subjects that could equally belong in two or three different forums

2. It's a pain for users having to swap about the forums so often

CUK has got it about right.

I agree Wend ...

I've stopped visiting PCG forums because 1. I don't think it's as busy as this site and the topics that are covered here are better and 2. all of the above....

IMHO the whole PCG site and the forum needs redesigning.... it's very confusing (difficult to navigate) and I expected a lot more pages to appear when I joined as a fully paid member too.

[Not So Wise]

Oversub dividing forums is a sure way to kill them off

[OrangeHopper]

Don't tell there is something we are all agreed on!

[Francko]

Yes, and one section for Sally Anne, one for Duder pseudo-romances and one for guru, the self-bullsh1tt1ing man in love with an idealised virtual image of himself.