Diapering basics and diapering fun chat - Page 5

[thismama]

Okay well I haven't posted regularly in Diapering in months, since I switched my daughter to cd and got most of my diapering system's kinks ironed out. But fwiw, I like this suggestion:

Originally Posted by fullofgrace

Maybe focusing on Diapering Activities is the way to go to divide into categories...

Shopping, Stalking, & Showing
Making & Caring For
Loving & Chatting About

[Camellia]

Originally Posted by fullofgrace

Maybe focusing on Diapering Activities is the way to go to divide into categories...

Shopping, Stalking, & Showing
Making & Caring For
Loving & Chatting About

: Perfect breakdown IMO.

[Kari_mom]

Originally Posted by fullofgrace
Maybe focusing on Diapering Activities is the way to go to divide into categories...

Shopping, Stalking, & Showing
Making & Caring For
Loving & Chatting About

As someone who spends a good bit of time in the Diaper Sewing forum and the Diapering forum, I am going to disagree with putting Making and Caring For diapers together in the same forum. I think making diapers belongs with Crafts, where the other sewing/knitting stuff is housed. The Caring For part, which I see as laundry questions that *everyone* has to figure out, should go with Loving and Chatting About. I like the way Diaper Making is listed as a sub-forum in diapering right now, with the link to Crafts.

I would also like to ask if there are plans to update the archives and resources, some of those threads are kind of old and don't reflect current diapering board theories.

Thanks!

[ZeldasMom]

Originally Posted by Kari_mom

I would also like to ask if there are plans to update the archives and resources, some of those threads are kind of old and don't reflect current diapering board theories.

This is why I am prejudiced against stickies! :LOL I'm not saying don't have them--but they have their limitations.

[nohomama]

Originally Posted by Sustainer

But if the topics are "simple diapers" and "hyena diapers," as some people are suggesting, then it would effectively divide people based on which kind of diapers they use, and it would leave many people without a "home."

This is what I've been saying.

Originally Posted by Kari_mom

As someone who spends a good bit of time in the Diaper Sewing forum and the Diapering forum, I am going to disagree with putting Making and Caring For diapers together in the same forum. I think making diapers belongs with Crafts, where the other sewing/knitting stuff is housed.

I agree. I don't really see the connection between diaper making and diaper care.

Barring keeping things as they are or dividing it into the two types of forums that Jen suggested earlier (Diapering 101 and Diapering Chat, I think), what about something like this...

1. Diapering Basics - What's What, Thrify Tips, and The Care & Feeding of Fluff
2. Stockings, Stalking, & Flaunting - Who's Stocking & When, The Hyena Dance, and Show & Tell
3. Diaper Making (as it is now, linked to crafts)
4. Diaper Chit Chat - Conversations About Our Common Passion

[fullofgrace]

Originally Posted by nohomama

I agree. I don't really see the connection between diaper making and diaper care.

Oh that's my bad. I was just listing activities, not suggesting forum names. Sorry for the confusion about that.

Originally Posted by nohomama

1. Diapering Basics - What's What, Thrify Tips, and The Care & Feeding of Fluff
2. Stockings, Stalking, & Flaunting - Who's Stocking & When, The Hyena Dance, and Show & Tell
3. Diaper Making (as it is now, linked to crafts)
4. Diaper Chit Chat - Conversations About Our Common Passion

I like it! I especially love The Care and Feeding of Fluff! So cute. :LOL

[Jennisee]

Originally Posted by nohomama

:
1. Diapering Basics - What's What, Thrify Tips, and The Care & Feeding of Fluff
2. Stockings, Stalking, & Flaunting - Who's Stocking & When, The Hyena Dance, and Show & Tell
3. Diaper Making (as it is now, linked to crafts)
4. Diaper Chit Chat - Conversations About Our Common Passion

I still think #2 and #4 go together, b/c I see stockings and stalking as part of chit-chat. And I think we're still forgetting some forums:

1. Diapering Basics/Diapering 101
2. Diapering Chit-Chat
3. Diaper Activism
4. Diaper Making
5. Diaper Reviews
6. The Daily Diaper
7. Elimination Communication

Seriously, isn't that enough forums?! :LOL

[nohomama]

Originally Posted by Jennisee

I still think #2 and #4 go together, b/c I see stockings and stalking as part of chit-chat.

I agree but I think that the folks who really want more or updated subforums don't want stockings and stalking to be part of chit chat.

Originally Posted by Jennisee

And I think we're still forgetting some forums:

1. Diapering Basics/Diapering 101
2. Diapering Chit-Chat
3. Diaper Activism
4. Diaper Making
5. Diaper Reviews
6. The Daily Diaper
7. Elimination Communication

Seriously, isn't that enough forums?! :LOL

Um, yeah! I rarely if ever visit any of those other forums. There are simply too many. The one advantage I see to revamping Diapering is that perhaps some of the existing subforums will be combined resulting in fewer subforums all together. I'm an incredibly anal and detail oriented person but more that three or four forums is too much even for me.

[spatulagirl]

I know it is going to be divided and i want it down for the record that I don't agree with it. I am just asking that the word HYENA not be used to describe anything in any forum.

[MamaTT]

I like what Meco said here:

My perspective of course, but I think the show off, ____day Fluffy Mail, what should I buy for this _____(event), did you see this?, stocking now run!, helo me stalk, etc. threads are the overwhelming ones. Could they be isolated into a subforum?

[amysuen]

Originally Posted by spatulagirl

I know it is going to be divided and i want it down for the record that I don't agree with it. I am just asking that the word HYENA not be used to describe anything in any forum.

:

I agree that it can be overwhelming for newbies - I walked around with my head spinning the first few weeks I came here! But now that I've figured out the basics of CDing I like having everything all mixed up together. I like being able to browse the titles and choose what to read depending on my mood. I don't want to have to go into different forums all the time, it's hard enough to navigate among the boards I like to read now. :

Besides, I love fluff as much as the next mama, but really, how many forums do we need for pee and poo catchers?! :LOL

[Cynthia Mosher]

Thank you all for your comprehensive input and sharing of ideas and suggestions! I just went through all of your posts, thinking I could cut and paste into a document for review the things that stood out as important to be considered. I found myself cutting and pasting almost every post! :LOL

I'll discuss all this with the mods and then see what we can do to try to accommodate your ideas and desires as much as we can.

Thanks so much!