I moved over 60 threads in the General Talk area to more appropriate areas in an effort to clean up the forums and to make them a little easier to view.
I chose now to do it because the General Talk forum was seven pages long and had over 180 individual threads. It was a mess and no one ever even looked on pages 4-7 anyway. I also chose to do it now, because the Community forum has its own moderator and the upkeep on threads will be easier now.
So, what I did was to go through and eliminate "dated" threads, like last year's Thanksgiving thread, various peoples' birthdays from last year, etc. I also seleted threads that had been sitting around for months without any replies or with no real bearing on anything timely with less than three replies. In all, I only deleted about 30 threads in these areas.
I also removed threads that had degenerated into flaming and had lost any real discussion-worthy merit. I think Curtis might have been somewhat right in that I should have kept some of them around as examples of what not to post, but I didn't think of it at the time, so they're gone. Some, I am not at all unhappy to see gone, too.
So, that was just the General Talk area. I haven't even moved into the BDSM Library areas yet or the Community areas. Updates to those areas will be coming soon.