Thanks for this!

Some comments:

Everything said is good but the post is too long and it risks being ignored by those that need it more: distracted junior posters in a rush. Here you have some suggestions to slim it down without loosing the good info.

All the descriptions of the forums should go better to... the descriptions of the forums that now are missing at http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/index.php . Your draft descriptions are very good. If you agree taking them out of the sticky topic, would you mind starting a new thread to discuss them for the forum index page?

We should avoid duplicate info with the current [URL="http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27900"]. Your tips and the ones we drafted can be merged.

We shouldn't repeat the same generaic content in all the sticky topics. Instead, we could have the generic infor in the General forum and then have sticky topics specific to each forum explaining what is the right content to be posted there and linking to the generic topics.

This implies a lot of boring manual work, including having to answer PMs of posters disagreeing or asking for further explanations. Let's use instead the redirect notices that are part of the system. It takes on click to leave them when moving a thread.

The risk of not getting an answer (fast or at all) from a moderator is high now. And again it causes extra work to the moderators (very few and already busy). If someone is unsure about the right forum s/he should simply go to newbie. We will redirect from there.