Buttercup wrote:I don't get the big fucking deal....its art. Why would it need its own forum?
I personally don't think it does.
Most of the forums we bitched and moaned to get aren't even used that much...
No, they aren't.
so why annoy the mods with the incessant whining?
There are two major arguments, for and against, that I can think of off-hand:
Pro: It makes searching for a particular thread easier, as you can limit it to one specific forum. Hence, if one is doing a search for a hypothetical thread on drawing people's clothing, they could perhaps enter the search string, "clothing texture", specify the "Gothic Art" forum, and avoid having to manually parse through somene's opinion about some t-shirt's feel from the Gothic Fashion section. Admittedly, I'm reaching in this example. But it's vaguely possible on this island, Earth.
Con: It's more work for the moderators, it's more stress (memory, CPU) on the board software's internal database, it's more bandwidth taken from each time the main listing page is loaded. Yadda. Fucking. Yadda. But mainly it's yet another thing that has to be looked after by the moderators.
Talk about art...in general or in crafty goth...the fucking balance of the universe is not at stake.
Again, this is my personal opinion, but I don't understand why it should have it's own category... yet.
If someone wants to prove that it's necessary, maybe start submitting an assload of posts that are entirely art orientated, like JaNell previously mentioned, and put the word "Art" in the title of the post.
