hi wluke,

Believe me, its not confusing at all. And there are many benifits in that.

• Esaier navigation for users.
• More efficient and precise search.
• Having very specific forums even if its not very active.

The concept is very simple. Imagine you have these forums:

FORUM1:
..............Movies

Forum2:
.............Video Games

Forum3:
.............Softwares

Assume the forums are active enough and you are thinking of adding specific subforums, say , to the moives like Drama. However you thought that if you do add this subforum ppl won't post in it, simply because they want EVERYBODY to see their post instead of ONLY the ppl who goes to the subforum Drama. So the only way to add a subforum and still have ppl post in it IS to make posts in the subforum appear also in the main forum. This way you can have as many as you want of the subforums and maybe subsubforums without being concerned about ppl not posting in it.

So you will have this structure:

FORUM1:
..............Movies
.........................Subforums:
...........................................Drama
...........................................Action
..............................................etc.

Forum2:
..............Video Games
.........................Subforums:
...........................................RBG
...........................................Strateg y
..............................................etc.


Forum3:
..............Softwares
.........................Subforums:
...........................................Graphic s
...........................................Office
..............................................etc.

So posts in Drama and Action will be shown in Movies. And posts in RBG and Strategy will be shown in Video Games. This will make the forum very organized.

Another advantage is that ppl will be able to subscribe in EXACTLY what they want and recieve the stuff they really want.

This will also help for the searching, cause you can choose very precise forum that will most likely give you the correct results.


You can also check these threads for more discussion about this feature.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...?threadid=4287
http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthrea...&threadid=6176
http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthrea...&threadid=7494