Restructuring of MSSBoard

mammos

Administrator
Secondly, for the whole "how to divide the forums" question, to avoid chaos you need to choose a property of the scenes and divide by it. The current division is roughly by the scene's source (Film, Music Video, Other - a slightly random split) and then by explicitness level. The tags (prefixes?) should provide additional properties to search by.
When choosing you should avoid two pitfalls:
  • Don't split by properties with too many options. For example, "scene source" can be film (short or not), tv, music video, stage (and art / vimeo), unscripted (paparazzi and sex tapes) - 5 options unless I missed something, and "Explicitness" can be unsimulated, graphic, non-explicit, gay - 4 options. This gives 5*4=20 forums, divided into 5 sections - I don't count the (extremely useful!) chat sections. It is a lot, but manageable.
  • Don't make overlapping divisions. The above split has the distinct advantage of being, well, distinct. Assuming the trivial rule that if a movie has two scenes of different explicitness level the highest one determines the forum, any movie can belong to only one forum - a single scene cannot be both from a music video and a stage-show, and it cannot be both unsimulated (=explicit and visible) and non-explicit. However, a scene can be both "Asian" and "Explicit" making this division a poor one.
Thank you for your input. To be honest, I'm struggling a bit to comprehend what exactly you are saying, no due to the ability of not understanding English, but since it's the first time I'm actually messing around with a website, so I will do my best to make it as user-friendly as possible.

  1. Isn't the Asian section a bit too... specific? Shouldn't it be removed and merged with the normal forums?
  2. What's the point of the unsorted forums? I think that the unsorted scenes forum should be removed (it's like deciding not to decide) and the unsorted full movies should be replaced with a "Full movie" tag.
  3. The "Not mainstream" forum is misleading. I often found myself wondering whether I should post there or in one of the other forums. Currently it's used for paparazzi mainly, but it'd been used for documentaries, artcore porn and more. I think that the paparazzi should have it's own forum under "Other" (maybe merge with "Famous Sex Tapes" or turn to a sub-forum?), "Documentary" should be a tag for the normal forums and "Artcore Porn" should be in it's own section and contain all the obviously-porn-but-still-interesting titles such as Glimpse, Erica Lust etc.
  4. Can there be more than one tag for a thread?
I still haven't touched those and you are right, they need to either be merged to existing threads and sections, or make them as distinctive as possible for a better experience.

I will try my best to restructure it along the way and I appreciate all the help you guys provide!
 

SomeGuy

Well-Known Member
Suggest merging Web Series with Vimeo/Shorts as there are very few Web Series and they are a form of short Films. Would also eliminate any confusion.
 

sowbb

Moderator
Thank you for your input. To be honest, I'm struggling a bit to comprehend what exactly you are saying, no due to the ability of not understanding English, but since it's the first time I'm actually messing around with a website, so I will do my best to make it as user-friendly as possible.
My explanation was perhaps too winded. Sorry :oops:.

What I meant is that the forums should be divided, like they are now, to sections corresponding to scene source ("Movies and Shorts", "TV", "Music Videos", "Art and Stage", "Unscripted and Sex Tapes") and sub-divided to forums based on explicitness ("Movies and Shorts" --> "Unsimulated", "Movies and Shorts" --> "Graphic", ..., "TV" --> "Unsimulated", "TV" --> "Graphic", ...).
Sub-forums tend to be less visible and harder to understand to non-technical people - they will probably post to the top-level forum and not to the sub-forums, causing a mess.

The "test" for a good forum structure IMHO is:
  1. Doesn't have too many forums.
  2. Doesn't have overlapping forums - if there's a scene that can correctly be placed in more than one forum then the forum structure is wrong!
 

mammos

Administrator
Thanks for your feedback. I will first try to reorganize the threads as I've started doing so in order to at least have everything in the place that they belong to decongest the threads a bit and then I will see how to further improve this based on your feedback.
 

mammos

Administrator
I will also add a new prefix "Real sex", because I believe that is the most scarce type of scene which I believe is most people's priority, and leave the "penetration" one for all other penetrative acts.
 

SomeGuy

Well-Known Member
We need a subforum under Graphic scenes, similar to that under Unsimulated and Explicit scenes, for Underground/Cult/Horrror genre, as it's now mixed with Mainstream content (Theatrical, TV and VOD).
 

JohnsonJ

Well-Known Member
We need a subforum under Graphic scenes, similar to that under Unsimulated and Explicit scenes, for Underground/Cult/Horrror genre, as it's now mixed with Mainstream content (Theatrical, TV and VOD).
"it's now mixed with Mainstream content (Theatrical, TV and VOD)." I agree with adding these additional subforums, but more for separating more disturbing content from the rest. For example most of the content I've posted under Graphic scenes are mainstream, have at the least had VOD releases but contained disturbing content. I don't won't to now start a debate on the word 'mainstream' but I do think just the three categories is kind of thin. If not a VOD release at the very least most of the content I've posted have had DVD releases and if a straight to DVD release of a Disney animated film would be considered mainstream, no reason that shouldn't apply here. What do you think?

@mammos if you want to chip in as well
 

mammos

Administrator
"it's now mixed with Mainstream content (Theatrical, TV and VOD)." I agree with adding these additional subforums, but more for separating more disturbing content from the rest. For example most of the content I've posted under Graphic scenes are mainstream, have at the least had VOD releases but contained disturbing content. I don't won't to now start a debate on the word 'mainstream' but I do think just the three categories is kind of thin. If not a VOD release at the very least most of the content I've posted have had DVD releases and if a straight to DVD release of a Disney animated film would be considered mainstream, no reason that shouldn't apply here. What do you think?

@mammos if you want to chip in as well

Hi @JohnsonJ and thanks for your input and for your overall contribution thus far. You are right, some of them might not completely be total underground and may have had a VOD or DVD release, but this will be too time consuming for me to try and differentiate them in order to be included in the "mainstream" section.

To be honest, I believe that since the nature of these movies is all about blood, gore, deaths or whatever you can name it, it is more appropriate to have them all grouped together in a section of their own, in order to differentiate them from the more "normal" movies if I may use that term, because there might be people that are not really into these movies, or, people who are into them can find them straight away.

I hope you can understand the point that I'm making and the reasoning behind it. Keep up the good work!
 

mammos

Administrator
Where do you guys think we should place scenes where body doubles and/or pornstars are used and maybe prosthetics? Or even where cgi is involved.

Should we include them in the unsimulated section and maybe add prefixes such as BD or prosthetic, CGI of some sort, or would it be better in the graphic section?

Examples that I can think of right now are let's say VIctoria Carmen Sonne that has 2-3 films that she realistically blows fake dicks and perhaps the movie Starlet where a pornstar was used.
 
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