DALederle wrote:Could anyone find a way to put in an all humor board in the board index.
In a word, "No."
In justification of that assertion, which I make as Barista, SkirtCafe's primary mission is to get skirts and kilts accepted in the everyday world as common garments for men. We already have a category for humour -- "Off Topic" -- and humour is almost always welcome in mainline threads so long as it's relevant to the thread in question. Establishing another sub-forum for "jokes and gags", which are usually one-way devices, does not seem to me to be a worthwhile complication to SkirtCafe's very clean layout.
When a joke is posted, for fun it seems that sooner or later someone slips in some deep thoughs and the whole thread goes off in another direction.
The "problem" (and it can be that way for a vast range of folks who likely have a vast range of "issues") is that deep thought is part and parcel of what we're trying to do here; if this was a frivolous notion I, for one, would not be here as I have better things to do. I enjoy a good joke, and a well-placed jab, as much as the next guy (possibly more so) but codifying it into the fabric of SkirtCafe isn't helpful to the raison d'etre of the community.
I think that what we have at the moment balances things reasonably well. There are jokers in our midst -- for all of that have that imp in us -- and that won't change, nor should it. The occasional poke, prod, and jab should always remain welcome as they keep us honest; however, those gibes should be offered in good humour and with good feeling, and, ultimately, I believe they should be topical and relevant to SkirtCafe's mission.
Put very bluntly, from a user-interface perspective, I'd be thrilled to cull a couple of high-level categories so the entire SkirtCafe front page can be rendered on a single screen that does not require scrolling. To date, however, I have not been able to come up with a better way to do it than our previous Master Barista did -- and that is very high praise indeed.
