I dunno about that. If there's one forum that could do with renaming, I'd say it's
Reviews. The name
Old reviews would better capture the reason for its existence.
If there are
two forums that could do with renaming, I'd say the second is none other than
Forum requests. I would favour a name that implies a wider scope.
Forum suggestions or
Forum ideas would both be moves in what I perceive as the right direction, but personally I would go further and expand the scope of the forum to include
any discussion that is
about Talkmagic as opposed to merely
on it. Such discussions are generally known as "meta-discussions", so my choice of name would be
Meta discussions,
Meta talk or even
TalkMeta.
Under this proposal, a thread such as
Accessing my account by andyreg (posted in the Dove's Head) would be posted to the same forum as the requests, suggestions and ideas currently posted to Forum Requests. Such threads are united by the fact that Talkmagic is the topic of discussion, and not merely the location where the discussion takes place. Part of my motive for suggesting such a change is that I suspect the existence of a forum exclusively
dedicated to requests sometimes unintentionally encourages the sillier sorts of suggestions (to a large extent, the content of Forum Requests could be parodied as: "
there should be a forum for discussing favourite colours for sponge balls" and it would only just be a parody). Expanding the forum to include more than
just requests may well curb some of the wilder excesses that it seems to attract.
What else? Well, in the Welcome section there are no less than
three forums that consist of nothing but stickies. I think that's excessive. I would propose merging
Talkmagic welcome with
Talkmagic rules and etiquette (after all, the content of one is a subset of the content of the other). I would also propose making
Who's Who at TM a sticky in
TalkMeta (or whatever you call the meta-discussion forum) rather than a forum all to itself.