One thing I've seen done that it interesting is a virtual basement. My favorite online forum is advrider.com. It a vbulletin for adventure motorcycle enthusia

One thing I've seen done that it interesting is a virtual basement. My favorite online forum is advrider.com. It a vbulletin for adventure motorcycle enthusiasts with over 200k users, 500k threads, and 17m posts. It works surprisingly well because it has a "basement" where anything goes. The understanding is upstairs is for constructive conversation, and the basement, especially "Jo mamma" is for time wasting, vitriolic, political/religious/Etc, posts. If you start a pointless thread, it gets banished to jo mamma.