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Originally Posted by Bruce1984

I think that what I'm looking for (the separate forums, different products) isn't possible, well, not exactly what I was looking for. Hopefully I can explain everything clearly enough, pretty hard to explain without visuals.

But I think I've managed a work-around (not exactly a work-around, but a setting I had to adjust). Before, I had no forum ID entered, as there were several different forums (movies, hardware, etc). Now, I've created a sub-forum in the 'staff area' where new products will be posted once submitted, up for moderation. When moderated, they can then be placed in their respective categories and along with it the proper sub-forums.

I wouldn't call that a workaround so much as intent...

The idea is that you have "users" suggesting products and "admins" approving them for the right category. The problem with data is it's origin and while it's faster to let people just add to any given forum that ups the risk.

Rather than a single thread for both reviews and comments?

Essentially all reviews are always appended as a post and optionally as a thread too. Whether or not you allow comments is up to you. If you don't want the review post you can hack it out but it is cross linked in a few places.

With the initial, to-be-moderated, products listed in the sub-forum in the staff section, it works fine, since it only creates a 'review' thread for the product. But if I would like an accompanying thread for comments, so I can keep reviews and comments separate, that would be a different thing entirely, wouldn't it?

Correct. I can offer a hook location up after the product thread is made to let you come back in and add another thread for your specific forum.