This isn't meant to be a bitchy rant, so please try not to read it that way. Especially when you get down to my plethora of rhetorical questions. It's just my twenty-five cents worth of info dump meets personal opinion, and I am typing it on my phone during a cab ride so it may be blunter than I was intending.
I understand this line of thinking and the history of the subforum overall. But there are a couple of things that don't sit well with me. First, the whole models pop subculture is shifting away from "pure" models towards celebrities and socialites. So, its natural to see the content of a living forum shift accordingly. At one point Vlada's thread rarely sank past halfway on the front page, but that's not as sustained now. Second, there are more ways to organize information in a forum than just building subforums. Tags, ratings, for instance, are two such examples. The tags on this thread are appropriate and if someone doesn't want to waste their time scrolling theough a thread on a chub, or with a negative tone, they can get a good idea of the content of the thread from the tags.
Trying to created nested or segregated boxes of information primarily increases the work required to moderate the forum without really adding value to the overall community. What does anyone gain by multiple model subforums really? Who decides which model is
worthy of which subforum? Who makes sure that things are posted where they are supposed to? All this arduous logistics just to increase the number of clicks and page loads it takes to get to content anyway? We have a free-to-access, security vault of a community that requires a lengthy enrollment process. How much more high-maintenance do we really want to be?
While I don't want to discourage any thinking on improving the community, the discussion for it should be broader than a few threads and in the appropriate subforum. Right now, the only people who may participate in this discussion are the people who don't usually ignore this thread. And I think where possible, we should see how we can improve it for ourselves (like descriptive tags and proper thread titles) rather than relying largely on the moderators with forum superpowers. I for one would like AB and SF who are the more active mods I see around to spend more of their time talking to us rather than cleaning up after us.
Plus, as a side note, there is a beauty in not being able to erase your mistakes. If someone creates a thread that is misplaced because they weren't thorough enough, it serves as a good reminder to be more diligent next time.
(And that is not in reference to this thread, which I think is in the right subforum given its content focuses on fatty hadid's modelling work and street "style" over her social status.)
