Pregnancy Forum - Calling All Mods!

In light of recent events in which many complaints and arguements have ensued, I have taken the liberty of studying this message board to brainstorm some ideas on how to once again make this message board organized and user friendly.

My mind has already worked in a flurry here. These are my suggestions to give this message board a lift. It is time for a makeover to help solve some of the problems that have been popping up lately. I do hope that you take these suggestions under serious consideration. I believe that they will help imensely. They may require that the boards be shut down in the process, but that is a small price to pay for the boards to become organized and user friendly.

1) create and send a notice to all existing members. This notice will ask: in order for our message board to remain organized and user friendly, please make sure that you create your posts under the correct forum heading. This message will also be sent to any new members upon registering.

It should then be the moderator's responsibility to monitor posting. If any posts are placed under the wrong heading, the moderator should move that post to the correct one.

2) remove the "pregnancy" and "pregnancy q & a" forums. These two forum headings are duplicates, because other existing forum headings already cover most possible topics. This is why they are so unorganized and being flooded, and why the other forum headings do not get much attention from users. The users tend to only use the first "pregnancy' forum in the list as a general ask all/answer all, neglecting to even bother with any of the other forum headings to which their question may be better suited.

Upon deleting these two forums, create the "ovulation and conception" forum heading, a "pregnancy complications" forum heading, and then the following forum heading:

3) creat an "ask the doctor" forum heading. This should be kept general to cover any topic. This will keep the "ask the doctor" questions from flooding individual forum headings. It will centralize all of these questions under one forum heading, thus making it easier to ask the questions. It should also make it easier for the doctor to answer, because they will not have to search the entire message board.

4) create an archive for all old posts. Under the archive organize it by having the same headings as the forums, and then under each forum heading have the months under which the posts were made: january, february, march, etc. Keep all archives for maybe 6 months tops, or even less, deleting the oldest month to make room for the newest month. This will help to keep the site clean, and free up bandwidth.

Organization of forum headings

main heading: pregnancy & childbirth

individual forum headings under this topic should go in this order:

1) ovulation and conception
2) early pregnancy signs & sypmtoms
3) pregnancy calendar
4) first trimester
5) second trimester
6) third trimester
7) labor & delivery
8) pregnancy complications & unusual circumstances
9) multiple pregnancies
10) teen pregnancy
11) pregnancy after 40
12) pregnancy fitness, health, & nutrition
13) single & pregnant
14) baby showers

main heading: after baby is born. Separate this from the "pregnancy and childbirth" main heading. They are combined now.

1) baby names
2) caring for your newborn
3) postpartum depression
4) baby's health
5) baby milestones
6) infant safety tips
7) daddy tips
8) grandparenting
9) going back to work: childcare tips

again, I hope that you will take my suggestions under serious consideration. I think many users are becoming fed up with the way things are going now, resulting in loss of members.