Quote Originally Posted by Pour1Malt View Post
aye... guid points there... the Games an Music arr no kilts...

cannae think o' an argument agai'n that...
You're absolutely correct and that elaborates what I was trying to say earlier. I don't know how far 'afield' things go before we start losing site of what we're here to do. In other words, where does it end?

"But there are a lot of people that enjoy rhubarb cream pie, so we should have a rhubarb cream pie forum section."

Here's an example of what can happen to an idea with loads of enthusiastic support. We looked at having a Pub section here on X Marks the Scot and since the appeal was pretty high, Highlandtide set up another forum on another site to accommodate those interested parties. That forum is just over a year old and sports a breath-taking total of 107 members with only 23 of them being active. And we still have members posting questions about whisky in Off Topic, when there is an entire forum section devoted to whisky at The Pub. What was really accomplished?

This suggestion for a Scotland Travel section is currently under discussion amongst the forum staff members. We've heard what you are saying, so let us see what we can pull out of our hats.

Here's what I see as a couple of possible scenarios for a Travel section -

We end up with two threads in the entire section and that only because the second person planning a trip didn't read the other thread before posting. We could easily achieve the same results with a single, static Web page and not tie up the database to do it.

Or there are multiple threads about planning a trip, which is really no different from what we already have now. And if the topic is as popular as you might think, then those threads would not be getting buried in the queue, they would always bob back up to the top.

These are the types of issues we are examining. We'll let you know a decision as soon as we have one. Patience...