admin, would reducing the number of boards

I have no interest in reading every post on this forum, but I am thinking it may be a good time to reorganize and consolidate. It's something I've been wanting to do for quite some time...

@sodacostanza ,

Film, TV, and music all have specific time periods and specific genres, each with limited appeal.  Lumping everything together would make it difficult, if not impossible, to find threads of interest.

For example, "Music General" is hard enough for me to shift through today - since a lot of it relates to bands and/or genres I'm not interested in.  And you want to dump all the threads for "Blues, Jazz & Soul", "Classical Music", "Country", "Electronic, Techno & Dance", "Hip-Hop & Rap", "Rock" and "Soundtracks and Scores" all together?!?  The average kitchen junk drawer would look like the epitome of organization by comparison.

That's not to say the merging of certain boards wouldn't make sense.  For example, do we need boards for "DC Extended Universe", "Marvel Cinematic Universe" and "Superheroes and Villains"?  Probably not.

When it comes to reorganizing the boards, I would recommend surgical strikes, not carpet bombing.

My example was more directed at "Superheroes and Villains", since many of those topics could fit in one of the other two boards.

I'd just get rid of the non active forums for now.

Such as?

If I were you I'd take a good look at the Legacy Board section.

You've got Film Talk where the most active forum is Summer movies which has threads on Dark Tower, Cars 3 and Spider-man. Well that should be merged with Film General or Now and Upcoming Releases where those threads already exist.

TV Talk hasn't had a single post since June.

You've got Genre Zone which includes sub forums for LGBT film, Teen film, 3D film etc. Well why not just combine that with Other Genres on the Genre section? That's a better fit anyway. 

There's an Around the World board which has no posts since June. That should be merged with International Cinema board on the Movies section because again it's the same thing.

Shop Talk has only had 7 posts in total.

So I'd get rid of all them, get rid of the Legacy Boards section and then take the Technology and Theatre board and add it to another section.

I made a suggestion about this several months ago that some of the inactive forums should be removed.

Even when IMDb had boards, I thought some of them were a bit redundant. For example, Shop Talk. Three-out-of-four sub-boards don't even have any topics, and the one that does (Shop Talk Writers) has two topics; one created back in February, and another that has a response from July.

I think it would be nice to clean it up a bit. Again, this is just merely a suggestion.

I'd be happy for all the music boards to be combined, Music General isn't exactly active. The first page currently has thread 4 days old. I can look at it once a day and catch up in a few minutes. The remaining Music Boards combined have about a 1/4 the number of threads as MG.

Fair enough, I just imagined MG would be pretty manageable to most posters even with the edition of the threads from the other genre boards.