Suggestions for improvements with user interaction

*necro thread apologies but it was my thread*


I have been thinking about how to grow the forum more than it is.
I like to read about alternate elections though have rarely done any of my own. I have several ideas on paper, some of which are very recent events though. I think that we could gain new users if we had a prominent alternate elections section where it is openly encouraged that this is for elections. I have done a very few ones in Chat, and Zyobot has done many ASB ones, but with Chat those are hidden to non-members who might want to join to post their own.
There is another site I am a member of, Vote UK Forum. It has an alternate political history section: vote-2012.proboards.com/board/60/alternate-political-history and it is (relatively) busy. I don't think we should copy that - and they have a massive userbase of British political knowledge - but something similar. It will mark us out as different from ah.com too.
I was thinking that maybe we could use the Shared Worlds board here as it already mentions election games. Could it be retitled as maybe Shared Worlds and Alternate Elections, maybe even give alternate elections a sub-board within its own name, but still make it clear on the site's front page that this is where alternate elections go.
I can see an issue with current politics outside of Chat but is that a rule we really need to be so harsh on? It can be applied too on other sites.
As said, just a suggestion. If not, I'll try to stick my ideas for alternate elections in Chat or After 1900 but I do think this idea of mine could have potential to grow us.

I think that would be too hidden. My thinking was to make it open to non-members to see, give prominence to alternate elections.
For years on alternate history boards, while conflicts are dominant, politics and thus elections are a close second behind them in interests. I'm thinking we can grow by encouraging people to join to add their own thoughts and, subsequently, create more ideas.

Excellent. I will try to add many threads!

Thank you. I hope it might make a difference.
I'm going to teach myself how to make wiki-boxes for elections too!

I was thinking about the new 'Naval what ifs and Neverwhere ships Cabin' forum. It's grown quite a bit, more than I would have thought.
What about aircraft and tanks/armoured vehicles too? Could we have a sub-forum within for 'Weapons Other Than Ships'? There are plenty of aircraft and tanks proposed but never built and I'm sure many discussions to be had.

If others are allowed to post on here, my suggestion is renaming the Naval Board to a general military board, some may be intersted more in land and aerial conflicts.