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It also depends on how big the guild gets.

If there's only a few people posting not so often, then there's no real need for the subforums, as there aren't enough new posts to warrent the further organisation.

I think the split should be along the major research divisions:

• Astrophysics and Cosmology
• Atomic and Molecular Physics
• Condensed Matter Physics
• High Energy Physics

I guess it is a matter of preference. I prefer to split things according to the nature of the question being asked. Although, any subforums would need to be justified by demand.

So this is directed at you Aurora, if you get to reading this. Since you seem to be the expert on Astrophysics and Astronomy, what do you think of starting our first subforum which A Lost Iguana suggested "Astrophysics and Cosmology"?

Alright, well we can wait, the guild topics need to grow a bit more before we can have a subforum, at least I feel so. so it's not a problem. and yah, I waited until the end of my exams before starting this guild. (barely, that's the first thing I did). lol.

I think that a moderator subforum would be a good idea only if the guild was very large. At this rate we can have a locked sticky or announcement where only moderators and captains can post. This should be enough to resolve all issues. Right now the announcement containing your names can be used for this purpose, please post your moderator concerns to this announcement.

In terms of join requests, yes all crew have access to join requests and can authorize them. So if we wish to have guidelines regarding requests, that is something we have to decide upon.

What do you think the guidelines should be?
Please answer this question in the above mentioned announcement. this thread is concenrned with possible subforums for this guild. thank you.

Also, I think a mechanics of materials subform would be a good addition as well, sliding off a little into the material forms of physics

My suggestion was a means of splitting the guild along the research lines. There can be cross-over but most subjects at the research level begin to fall along those lines.

The properties of materials would fall into the domain of condensed matter physics, so having separate sections for condensed matter and material physics would be a little redundant. Nor do I think that particle physics and atomic physics are that easy to confuse: particle physics deals with elementary particles and fundamental forces; atomic physics is more concerned with, unsuprisingly, atoms and their properties.

As I had said, I would split things according to the nature of the question being asked, and not by the theories required to answer it [athough many fields have their effective theories only working properly inside the field]. It would be perfectly fine to split things according to the theory, but I think you would need to be consistent. Either you go by the theory: classical mechanics, relativity, etc., or you go by the research fields.