My understanding is that Max is agin the two forum solution which would no doubt lead on to people wanting a third forum and so forth. So it won't happen.

And I hope it won't happen because it'd complicate things, and I'd miss stuff I wanted to find; and it wouldn't work anyway, because good no-music threads end up bringing in music, and good music threads end up bringing in other stuff. Also sooner or later we'd have busybodies launching-in about "what are you doing quoting a song to illustrate a point when this is clearly identified as a non-music site", and the other way round.

Given that, I agree that it'd be good to have a requirement that every thread has a prefix, and that there should be a non-music prefix alongside BS - a post about "A good friend has just died" for example doesn't fit too well with that prefix. The advantage of "News" is that it's fairly self-explanatory. PN for Parish Notices would be OK, and it's a term that has been used in lots of folk gatherings for announcements about future events and births deaths and marriages, but it'd need constant explaining. And somebody would probably say it offended them.

So I'd go for News. And maybe also Misc(allaneous) in case somebody wanted to start a thread that didn't fit in any category. And a firm requirement that all thread-titles have to use a prefix, assuming tghat is possible without additional hassles.

If it isn't, we could have a "self-denying ordinance". By which I mean that, once the the additional prefix options (News and Muisc or whatever) were in place, we could abstain permanently from posting-on or even looking at any threads without prefixes.