The group buys and pre-order section could benefit greatly by a little tiered organization.
I think we can improve things dramatically by breaking it down into the following sub-boards:
- Group Buys & Preorders - Open
- Group Buys & Preorders - In Production
- Group Buys & Preorders - Complete
Operationally, Allowing mods (or perhaps approved thread owners) to move a thread between these options would make this easy and greatly ease the finding of new and open Group buys and relieve the clutter caused by old threads being bumped to the top.
Thread moving could also be botted by enforcing a format for Group buys that requires keywords in the lead post or title such as "[OPEN DATE]", "[CLOSE DATE]" or ["STATUS: (OPEN/PRODUCTION/COMPLETE"].