Waymarking has a forum for each category (I think). Some of mine
I haven't looked at in a year. Some I've never looked at.
No problem, I'm almost positive there's no posts for them.
There's no index for them that I can find. They seem to be hidden
in the shadows of waymarking. The only way to even see them is to
go to a category and then, on the right, click on "Find related
topics", then adjust the default time period.
So, I bookmarked (favorited or whatever you want to call it) the forums
of all the categories in which I'm an officer. I noticed none of
them has any message within the 3-month default time period. How
often will I check them, I wonder?
So, in Waymarking, pretty much no one discusses any category except
when it is not yet a category; a proposed category. Is that good
or bad? I think it's bad. They won't evolve if they're not
discussed, unless people want to start emailing other officers, which
is a pain because there's no 'reply-to-all' feature. There's an
Administration place in each category forum. I don't know how it
works. Is it just for officers to see? I don't know.
I can see the word Adminisration in categories in which I'm not an
officer.
The reason people don't discuss categories in their forums I think is
simple - they're hard to find, and hard to see - there's no index for
them that I can find, even in the "My Categories" page, and there's no
friendly little yellow triangle that tells an officer - Hey, There is
Work for You to Do.
Perhaps I'm just ranting against myself for being a bad officer and not
making it a habit of looking at 'my categories' forums, but I think the
website need to have some more menu support for this possibly valuable
type of forum.