is this not for the sport thread?
Threads occur within topics. This is the Cars
topic so it could be argued that it's fairly natural to have a sport associated
thread within it. I appreciate it's not that easy to fathom, but the setup of the forum itself is this:
Categories / boards / topics / threadsSo we have the first
category -
Forum CentralIn
Forum Central we have the following
boards:
Welcome, The Three towns forumIn the
Welcome Board we have the following
topics:
Welcome, FAQs, Please read this firstWithin each
topic there are multiple threads.
When we were first creating the forum we had to try to anticipate what people would want to discuss and debate. In theory, you could have just one topic to discuss everything, but navigation of the site would prove almost impossible, given the numbers of members and postings.
There's also the factor that we have to try to make it reasonably comprehensible for new members, so they can find what's happening fairly quickly and easily. That's the main reason I 'housekeep' and merge topics. The only board on which I don't usually merge topics is
Genealogy and Research , really because the topics in there are normally very specific.
It's also fairly normal for conversations to drift off subject, and it's only when the drift becomes almost a new topic that I will edit that topic and merge posts into another topic.