By a niche interest I mean people couldn't snatch up something big like /pol/ or /tv/, nor could they claim something useless like /asdfghjkl/. Maybe there would need to be an application process? I don't know. It's up to taba-tan really whether they like the idea or not.

Untitled boards give niche interests a place on 4taba but they lack focused moderation (i.e. from people familiar with the board's subject) and neat custom CSS.

My two cents on this is that untitled boards are there to fill in extra space, a temporary holder for a suddenly popular topic. Their impermanent volatile nature means that they can be deleted at any point if there's a need for space, so it wouldn't make sense to go through the trouble of setting someone up as a moderator when their workspace has the chance of disappearing very soon.

>>3
This guy got it. They weren't really meant to be discovered, or controlled.
The original name I had for them was I think "temporary use boards" because that's how I imagined them being used.
Say some event occurs that's relevant to your board (like comiket maybe) well rather than creating 1 or 2 general threads everyone can just agree to go dump their stuff and hold conversation in a particular untitled board until the event is over and then it just stops being used until the next event.

But you can never really predict how things are going to work in practice, so I leave it to everyone to do whatever they want. But I definitely don't think it would be a good idea for people to be able to squat on them and say "this is the board for X and you can't post anything else".

I'm against enforcing any kind of rule but the two global ones. Moot's mentality of having a board for every little thing and having them micromanaged hurt the site, or at least the boards I browsed.

>>5
That's more or less my thoughts too.
I'm not sure if most people coming here now realize that this site currently has an OP moderation feature. (He can hide images/posts but not delete anything so anyone can still expand the hidden posts and view them)

My plan so far is to basically only loosely moderate the OP topic when a thread is made. As long as the OP is somewhat related to the board or relevant to its users then it would be fine and any posts inside threads can be moderated by the OP himself (other than the global rules of course). If he wants to let people talk about something completely unrelated in his thread then that's his decision.

> this site currently has an OP moderation feature
Really? When did that happen? Will the feature only apply to threads created since you enabled this? I just checked a couple threads that I have started and I don't see any option for that.

>>7
It's always been there. It uses a password but you should already have an auto-generated one in the password field when you created the thread and it should be remembered by your browser so you don't have to remember it.
Just go to the thread and click the "Thread Tools" button in the top right and click "On". That should place extra links inside each post that you can use if the password is correct.

Someone should create /vex/ for flags, or some sort of general purpose "symbolism" board for heraldry, seals, flags, mon, and the like.