Three (Platform Agnostic!) Best Practices in Online Community Architecture

A more sensible way to think about where conversations need to be broken up, that’s not topic, is format. In a physical space, the analogy might be—if half of my guests are drinking wine from expensive stemware and half of my guests are playing Twister, I might send the Twister players into another room so they don’t elbow-knock a glass of Chablis.... See more

There is often no compelling reason, even in online communities, to suggest people go into different rooms to discuss different topics.