I've been thinking about creating an off topic forum for a while now, but people have been doing pretty good sticking to motorcycle related discussion so I thought adding an off topic forum would just promote off topic discussion. I want to keep the main focus of the site on XS650s, other motorcycles, and motorcycle related things like tools. A little bit of off topic discussion is ok, so I thought an off topic section, with an adult content sub forum (that was only viewable if you were a member) would work best. But what if you have a motorcycle related thread with adult content? Now we would need two sub forums. So instead of all that, what about one of these options:
Three discussion forums:
The Garage: XS650 and Motorcycle related discussion
The Lounge: Non-motorcycle related discussion
The Back Room: Members only
To keep off topic discussion to a minimum in The Lounge, things could be done like threads could be deleted after a certain amount of time, and posts wouldn't count toward your total post count, etc. The Back Room is where threads with nudity would get transferred and would be viewable by registered members only. It would have to be heavily moderaded so it wasn't just full of requests for nudity.
Maybe just have The Garage and The Back Room to keep off topic discussion down to a minimum. The Back Room would be a sub forum of the garage and would be viewable by members only. Any threads with nudity would get moved there or could get posted there.
The only problem with these ideas is that just as adding an off topic discussion would lead to more off topic disccution, adding a forum just for adult content would lead to more adult content.
Any ideas or input?