So I did some digging and noticed there's been suggested role forums a few years back, and one earliest in February. I didn't want to necro that thread, though, so I figured I'd make a new shiney thread.
Basically, I find that finding a good place to talk about my specific role is a bit tricky. It's either the Paladin forum (I'm a Holy Paladin, obviously), whereas the Priests, druids and Shamans probably wont read my stuff, or in the General Section, which is already pretty flooded with everything else, and people might not go there to discuss their role.
I'm not sure how to implement the forums in a much more tidy way, but the guild recruitment forums could probably be edited to take up less space on the main forum page. Basically two forums, EU and US, then have subforums inside would make it look a bit more clean. Then we have plenty of room for a Tank / Healer / DPS forum. No? Perhaps.
Anyway, Pros and Cons you say? Let's try.
Pros:
Easier way for Healers, tanks or DPS to communicate on the forums.
Gives a much easier overview, instead of having to look through several forums to find threads and such.
Easier to know where to post your questions, threads or whatever floats your boat if it doesn't suit your class forum.
Let's face it, almost nobody uses the official wow forums anymore. Only mostly whiners and such.
Ghostcrawler only really posts on the US forums, the EU role forums rarely have any sort of moderation or blue stuff. No love for Europe!
Cons:
Might take up some forum space, forums could look a bit less professional(?)
Could give less traffic to certain class forums (Probably the main issue)
I can't really think of that many cons. So if anyone has something, please bring it up.
Thoughts about this?