Calling all Moderator's

Hi Big_jon, thanks for the suggestion. I've learned from experience that highly specific subforums are counter-productive. If there isn't already significant discussion on a particular topic, creating a subforum for it won't generate more discussion. The benefit of subforums is that they help organize topics so that new threads won't get buried in extremely active forums. None of the job specific subforums are active enough for this to be a problem. Another benefit is that if a topic is being discussed in threads that are spread out across many forums, creating a subforum provides one place for all that discussion to continue. That's what happened with the Oilfield Trucking forum.

If you see other job specific topics like Oilfield Trucking that has a large volume of threads on the topic and could benefit from a centralized subforum then let me know.

There is a specific problem we're trying to avoid: every subforum needs a critical mass of members visiting it regularly in order to keep discussion going. If the job specific forums get spread out too thin then none of them will have enough visitors to reach that critical mass.