I have noticed a glaring problem with the sidebar, and that is the News section. I know that it allows actual discussion of the topics, but most new people don't seem to get that, and just blow the boards off. This usually leaves to dead discussions.

Why not just change the News category to Interests? Plus, we have the News board in the News category already, it almost seems that we are looking for news about news.

I know this sounds a little silly, but I think that it would be a good idea just to make this place a little more new-user friendly. God knows that we need more users. Thank you!

Disregard topic title, just read the post.

But this board is a 2channel ripoff, and a large number of their boards are "News"... Including one particularly important one.

Yeah, I know that board names, where they are located in the side navigation etc don't exactly match with how the boards are used. How about you tell me how you think the navigation and or boards should be named and laid out?

Regarding Net Culture and Internet Addicts...

While there may have been an intent for these to each have a separate focus, is there actually any difference when most people only read board titles?
Would a merger make sense, or perhaps renaming IAA to Trolls And Lols (or something more descriptive of it's purpose).

(Just a thought)