What is a "Child Board"?

[brasidas19004]

Never seen this expression...

Only occasional user, I assume everyone knows what it's about - seems to be a dedicated board.
But at first I thought it was a forum for kids or kid topics [something the wargame community desperately needs, I might add].

[boywundyrx]

It's an offshoot of a main board.  So as a made up example, if there was a 40K main board, things like Horus Heresy (30K), Battlefleet Gothic, the various skirmish games, RPGs, etc. could all be child boards off it.

[brasidas19004]

Ah!  Maybe a "spawn board" is a way to think of it.

[Plynkes]

It is possible that it's just what the forum software calls sub-forums.

Or they may have been named so by the previous owner of the forum, who was not a native English speaker. I had not come across the expression before joining LAF either, but if you are thinking in another language it might sound perfectly normal.

[Steve F]

You see, when a Mummy Board and a Daddy Board love each other very much ...

[FierceKitty]

You find them at feasts in certain pre-Columbian American cultures and in Polynesia and central Africa. Rather like a cheese board in a less controversial restaurant.

[aircav]

You see, when a Mummy Board and a Daddy Board love each other very much ...

 

[Dolmot]

It is possible that it's just what the forum software calls sub-forums.

It is. https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Child_board

[dickiegranthum]

Zack’s

[brasidas19004]

You see, when a Mummy Board and a Daddy Board love each other very much ...

Yes, yes!  And...??!!!!!
 

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

Glad someone brought this up. For years I have ignored these boards, not by intention, but because the layout of LAF makes these boards so easy to overlook, kind of like how I always ignore paid posts on a search engine, they look irrelevant as a side bar. LAF could really use a good graphical layout revision.