That is, for this thread. Bringing it up has in view two goals:
1. As the post is titled, I want this thread revived. Following 'suggestion box' idea working well in Chapter-by-Chapter sub-forum, let it incorporate all ideas and suggestions there may come concerning the forum and its well-being a
s a whole (I know there is special area for this, but sometimes, ‘vox populi’ should be heard as well, surely?)
2. Naturally, I have a suggestion of my own. Why would I remember the thread at all if it were not so?
Let the credit go where it is due, first - I was inspired to think about the issue at all by SpM's
Does LoTR have cross-cultural appeal? thread. First sprouts of the current suggestion were voiced by me there (post #
34)
Now, the idea grew in thinking, and now may be restated thus:
Wouldn’t it be nice if we were o-o-older, than we would not have to wait so lo-o-ong… Sorry, I meant to say,
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had Social Inquiries sub-forum? (as part of BD sub-forum, where all announcements and obituaries go, and were we study each other as well with our
Coming of Age clubs and
Where are you from? type of threads.
Let me elaborate:
As recent poll-o-mania and other inquiries show, we are curious folk. We want to know things (the very abundance of mentioned ‘where do you…’ threads speaks for itself. Now I would be ‘curiouser’ of all, but it seems a logical next step to have things like ‘what do you believe in’, ‘what family language you speak belongs to’ and ‘what continent were you born on’ inquired upon
Currently active related threads (same
Where are you from and now dusty
What do you do for a living and others) may be moved into the new sub-forum for completeness’ sake. Otherwise, the new Social Inquiries sub-forum will contain polls mainly - public or private, depending on confidentiality of subjects inquired into.
After some time, quite coherent puzzle-picture of our (meaning by ‘our’ BD, not fandom in general) social cleavage may be assembled.
Now, my main weak spot – so what? What would be the
point of such data collection? Nothing special, just curiosity satisfied (hope no cats are harmed in the process). And since it is ‘nothing special’, I now bring the suggestion to your collective judgment, over which, of course, lies the absolute power of administration (whose ways are inscrutable, as every rookie and old-hand likewise knows)
Hence the title of the thread once again justified – to Administration, Proposal