Look, there's really only one way you can realistically divide up a forum like this. I've been on forums for years and lived through all sorts of design decisions, as have we all. In particular one forum stands out to me as being something that has a lot of sub-forums and works, and that is YakYak. Over there there's about five categories with three or four subforums in each, so under general you've got a general 'pub' board, announcements board and 'pay for forum hosting' board and the archived thread board. Then there's a gaming category with a general gaming thread and a gaming league thread, and finally an 'artisanal' category with music, programming, photography and so on boards, most of which have their own discreet ecosystem.
That's a rather drawn out range of choices, and we don't need that here. I do however propose a simplified version, with three boards. Firstly, a video games board. Anything remotely to do with gaming can go in here. Up to and including amisung anecdotes about your missus slapping you for calling her 'Princes Peach' breathily during anal. Then an arts forum, you know, Van Gough to Van Halen... no, make that Van Morrisson - classy stuff would be preferable as a rule of thumb! And then an 'everything else' forum, for everything else, like. Should a particular topic/meme/raging flame war become cancerous on the general forum, we migrate it to an isolated area, so only those with the stomach need fear its depths. Say we can't stop talking about cookery, buggery or witchery, we simply create a fourth board. In fact, we ought to have a fourth 'dark arts' forum where nature and chaos may have their way, enter at your peril and so on. We should probably call it "Goatboy's Demonic Dungeon of the Dark Stuff" just to be sure it is as kick-ass aweome as possible, too.
Anyway I'm off my fucking spazflaps and I need to go to bed. I can't understand why I managed to type this so well there's like a million keys but somehow I'm in the fucking zone, yo.
wtf etc lol