We seem to have directories for everything now and to be honest, are they really needed? It just seems that people are trying to be MOD's by starting these up. I don't find them helpful, and so do some others who i've talken to about this. Its madness!

*This is not hating anyone*

I do admit there is a sudden surge of Section Directories but they're not exactly uncalled for, it's just a use for referring back to a certain thread. Sure, it's not NEEDED, but it saves people a lot of time by going through each page to look for it since we have so many chatterboxes. There are many details in life that are not needed, but are made. For example, he invention of an iPod. People certainly don't need it, but people find it helpful and very entertaining.

I first came up with the Club Directory to try and organize the Club forum more because we had several clubs for one subject and many clubs that have been created and abandoned and that's not exactly what the stereotypical "Club" does.

You may not find these useful, and don't use them at all --- but it's pretty easy to ignore them I think, as we do to a lot of threads if we're not interested in the topic.

I disagree that they're particularly trying to be mods, being helpful and trying to be organize doesn't call for it to exactly be moddish. Perhaps these guys are just fed up with having to search and search and not finding the topic that they want? At least they're doing something about it, and they're going out of their way and volunteering themselves to open these directories to make it easier for themselves and for others. Who are we to prevent that?

I just want to give my take on this, since I'm one of those who has made a directory. I know, personally, when I first got the idea, the only reason I wanted to make the directory was because I noticed how cluttered the rp forums are. There's so many roleplays in there, with many of them being posted in quite a bit every day, and the less active ones can easily get pushed down to the second or third page(in the Non-LotR forum, anyway). And, as a roleplayer, I found it a little disconcerting to have to keep up with all the roleplays I'm in, especially when they were apt to be pushed down to the second or third page(which, of course, you usually don't look at that often). And thus, I thought a directory would make things simpler, far more organized, and also make it easier to find a quick link to a certain roleplay.

But yes..that's just my two cents. I personally think all the directories are very helpful, (I frequently use the Club, Requests, and Contest Directories, myself). It makes it so much simpler to find a certain thread, though of course, you could take longer and simply search for the thread among several pages of other threads. And, as others have said before me, it also adds a certain amount of order and organization.