Greg Ferguson
Legend!
Here's the problem… they don't choose, they just post and then much later figure out that there are forums and sub-forums.As far as how would someone unfamiliar with other models know to use the All Models sub-forum, I assume they would continue to choose the forum for their model.
And, worse, if we point out that there are categories and they should post in the right place, then other people complain that we're acting like moderators, we're not letting them speak, etc., because… because… we're being MEAN! So, nothing improves. It takes a committed community to make this idea work, and we don't have that. I can refer to many such exchanges on this system.
The Stack Exchange sites have a system in place where, as people learn the system, they gain more "reputation", and, as they do that, they gain more responsibility toward helping maintain the site. Part of that is educating others on how to use the site, editing and cleaning up posts, voting posts for deletion, identifying posts that need a moderator's attention, etc. It works reasonably well, but it's still chaos and there's a constant incoming barrage of off-topic posts that are slowly burying the main sites. Again, it's because people don't care to "follow the rules", or "look before they leap" or whatever metaphor you want to use, they don't figure out where their post should go, they just let fly.
So, if this suggestion is to happen, it needs some careful consideration about how it's to remain curated, and the community MUST agree to it, otherwise entropy will set in and the end result will be the same situation, second verse.
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