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Dear Art-lover, you involve one of the thorniest issues of building social networks - effectively structuring and search content. One solution here - a principle which is constructed, in particular, Wikipedia - Continuous total indexing of all content on the ever-expanding set of keywords, each of which is associated with a sample of entries containing that keyword in a formalized description. The principle is a logical and efficient, but the idea and structure of Wikipedia is fundamentally different from the ideas and structure of a forum for free communication. The structure of Wikipedia is strictly formalized and does not allow any liberties. Each dictionary entry in Wikipedia is a clear description of a particular concept or subject matter claimed. In the same forum, as you know, all quite different.

Judging by your reports, you have some concrete suggestions for possible solutions to the aforesaid problems. On the very existence of such problems are all perfectly know or intuitively understand this, but the options for making me something yet to hear no argument. I would like to hear your specific suggestions.

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Few added. One solution to the problem of finding interesting content directly in the forum - the creation of thematic lists of links, and in particular that is already a cloud of tags (which, unfortunately, not all and not always used). Given the fact that each participant of the forum can edit and add tags to any of the topics - it is quite powerful and flexible tool for structuring the thematic content.

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Another add. There are other ways to formalize the content enjoyed by, for example, on most major forums - torrent tracker, in particular torrents.ru. We will not discuss here the question of the legality of their content, but the idea of formalization is that when creating a theme for each of its creator require some form filling, with a clear formalized description of the content starting message threads. In the case of a vacancy or improper filling all the form fields, the topic does not pass the approval by a moderator and not allowed to torrent distribution. All would be nothing but the imposition of such restrictions significantly complicates the task for the creators to publish content and ultimately discourage any desire to do so. In principle, the engine of our forum laid some mechanisms for formalizing such content, but I'm not sure what to use them. Any restrictions immediately lead to reduced activity of the forum, since it must be really very serious motivation to make face additional difficulties in publishing their messages. And then ... any formalized way or another is an obstacle-free communication on the forum.

Hence - the only way out: to have a staff of moderators involved the formalization and structuring of content to create a semblance of Wikipedia content of the forum. I confess - something to me this idea is not quite like it. For many reasons. And chief among them: free communication, free myslevyrazhenie not always be formalized description. In a free myslevyrazhenii often present a variety of lyrical departure from the claimed subject matter, which can serve as a starting point for change in the general direction of the discussion in this topic that we often observe. What here can be formalized description? "Guide" and "Tag Cloud" - here, in my opinion, the main road. Perhaps the "Guide", divided into more specific sections - eg, your own "Guide" in each section of the forum.