Right now you've gotta ask for forums to be created, I haven't built an interface yet that allows for their creation. I have to go put them in manually.
Forums and Communities are independent things, a community will exist on the blockchain, and the forums exist within the indexes I've created on chainBB. The synergy they have is that once communities are released, I can tell the forum software to allow forums created based upon them, allowing communities to generate rewards both via the communities protocol AND through the forum interface.
Okie doke, I gotcha - though where do I post stuff if a relevant forum hasn't been created? In the General Discussion forum, or?
Hrm, good question. I suppose the general forums would work - and then you could just add 4 additional tags to get it discoverable on steemit.com within those categories.
As topics become popular within the general forums, we can always branch out and add more. I hesitate to add a ton of forums really fast because it'll just end up creating clutter and unused forums :)
That sounds like a good way to do it! o v o)
Kind of like... making forums by popular demand! :'D
I think I'll be posting to chainBB from now on ^ u ^)
Though I was wondering - it doesn't hurt the forum curation if I do Powered Up posts, does it? Because I was thinking about doing mostly Powered Up posts, and Powering Down if I needed some money (though I think that's frowned upon on Steemit? :'S So I'm not sure...)
But anyway, the algorithm still lets chainBB get the 15% off my posts, right? It won't mess it up?