Can we not be a sub-board?

[sjh722]

Anyone know how to accomplish this?

I feel like d&r gets a lot more traffic than some of the other boards that are directly linked on the left, and the extra clicking through is kind of annoying.

Other thoughts?

[sb]

Yeah it's annoying. At the least I think we should be the main home board, and then we can have gardening and organizing be sub-boards of us.

Home Decor and Design?

[emoflamingo]

May 16, 2012 11:16:33 GMT -5 sb said:

Yeah it's annoying. At the least I think we should be the main home board, and then we can have gardening and organizing be sub-boards of us.

Home Decor and Design?

Yep. Why can't Gardening and Organizing be a sub-board of us?!

[kaylie]

Some people are talking about just moving onto the main home and garden board, which I think would be fitting because we discuss landscaping/renovation/decorating and a whole host of other things. I don't think Home Decor and Design would be broad enough to allow gardening and organizing to be sub-boards.

[EllieArroway]

May 16, 2012 11:27:09 GMT -5 kaylie said:

Some people are talking about just moving onto the main home and garden board, which I think would be fitting because we discuss landscaping/renovation/decorating and a whole host of other things. I don't think Home Decor and Design would be broad enough to allow gardening and organizing to be sub-boards.

I think this is a good idea. That board isn't being used, anyway, and decorating fits in well with home&garden. If you guys want me to I can move all of your posts over there and delete this sub-board.

[sb]

Okay. Who gets to decide? Should there be a poll on the main board?

Because right now 21 people are viewing the Decorating board, and zero are viewing the gardening and organizing boards. Plus, gardening and organizing are kind of, I don't know, subtopics of home design.

Moving to the main board would be the same thing. It would just split the decorating posts up.

[natablue]

I've find that now that this is a sub board, I find myself visiting it less, because it's not as visible. I don't post here a ton, but I've enjoyed this board since I joined TN in 2008.

[floridakat]

How would moving to the main Home & Garden board split decorating posts up? This board would get deleted, and we would be able to use the link on the left to go directly to our board. I like it.

[kaylie]

May 16, 2012 11:30:23 GMT -5 sb said:

Okay. Who gets to decide? Should there be a poll on the main board?

Because right now 21 people are viewing the Decorating board, and zero are viewing the gardening and organizing boards. Plus, gardening and organizing are kind of, I don't know, subtopics of home design.

Moving to the main board would be the same thing. It would just split the decorating posts up.

I started a poll on the name change and so far, using home and garden seems to be a very popular idea. I disagree that those are subtopics of home design and we would want a broad subject area to be a main board so that people who have a full understanding of what they could find within the board. If I hear "home design" I don't think gardening, I think interior decorating.

My vote would be to migrate decorating to the main board and leave the sub-boards.

[pinkeggs]

I vote to move to main board. Combining gardening and stuff like that would only increase our traffic and population, and that's not a bad thing

[sjh722]

If we move to the main H&G board, is the G&L sub-board necessary? (Since a. it's not active and b. Gardening is already implied as a topic of the main board since it's in the title?)

[kaylie]

May 16, 2012 11:38:33 GMT -5 sjh722 said:

If we move to the main H&G board, is the G&L sub-board necessary? (Since a. it's not active and b. Gardening is already implied as a topic of the main board since it's in the title?)

I would agree with this. We end up talking about g&l here anyway and it doesn't seem like there is a tight knit group over there that we would be offending.

[sb]

If this board gets deleted, that's cool with me. I didn't realize we wanted to combine gardening. That's not my thing, but it definitely doesn't bother me if there are gardening posts here.

[emoflamingo]

I don't ask gardening questions on the gardening board just because i hate "one-post-and-run" types and i certainly don't have anything good to input on that board (unless, however, you need to know how to kill plants -- I am your woman there). I think the former D&R board is pretty well rounded and we can answer all kinds of questions.

[decoraholic]

I like combining the two, but I'm not a G&L regular since I kind of forget it's there and it's so slow. I would enjoy seeing the gardening posts, though and I agree with the PP who said it's not a bad thing to increase the posts on this board.

[kaylie]

I'll post something on the Decorating board asking if there are any objections. If no one raises any in the next few hours, do you think it's okay to make the move?

[sjh722]

May 16, 2012 11:41:28 GMT -5 sb said:

If this board gets deleted, that's cool with me. I didn't realize we wanted to combine gardening. That's not my thing, but it definitely doesn't bother me if there are gardening posts here.

I was just looking at the main page and realized it was cluttering up the top with another sub-board.

G&L really doesn't get many posts - and most of them are a post-and-run, so I don't think it would change the tone of this board much.

I agree with EssBe, if this board is deleted and we move to the main one it's fine by me.

[katie4253]

May 16, 2012 11:23:56 GMT -5 emoflamingo said:

May 16, 2012 11:16:33 GMT -5 sb said:

Yeah it's annoying. At the least I think we should be the main home board, and then we can have gardening and organizing be sub-boards of us.

Home Decor and Design?

Yep. Why can't Gardening and Organizing be a sub-board of us?!

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