Many new forum admins make the mistake of setting up their site and adding each and every possible section they will ever need right off the bat. This creates 2 problems.

1. too many sections to choose from when a new member wants to make a new thread
2. many empty sections as you can only makes so many threads a day

What i suggest is to start your forum off, brand new, with a few well thought out general sections. as those sections grow and you have enough content to spread, pick a popular topic, make a new forum, and move all the threads on that topic out of the general section and into the new forum.

example:
you have a new general forum and have lots of people talking about cars

DO NOT make a new forum for cars, a new forum for trucks, a new forum for suvs, a new forum for hybrids, a new forum for imports, etc etc

DO make 1 forum for all car talk, let it grow, then once you have say 15 or 20 various threads about trucks, add a truck SUB forum. if trucks continue to grow make it it's own forum if its that big. same with other types of vehicles..

just a little advice from the Caddyman

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Philly Sports
Delaware Online
PA Forums

good advice mate, I remember my first forum a few years ago and it had tons of section and it just didn't work. Thankfully with experience I learned to do it your way this time round and it works very well.

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good deal, it is hard sometimes to limit the forums. i just ran into this with a forum i setup for a client, she literally gave me a list of 50+ sections to add. i had to talk her down off the ledge and we settle on 20ish i believe after I explained all this to her.

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Philly Sports
Delaware Online
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