While this idea may be fully covered by the CoffeeGeek local forums, does anyone think that this site could benefit from a "Home Barista's Home Away From Home" forum? The idea I had involved one city name per thread, and each addition would be a new post if a city already existed in the board, or a new thread if the city did not exist.

...or if Dan (HB) somehow had infinite amounts of time on his hands, a separate page with drop-downs sorting by State (US/Canada) or Country (where there might be fewer submissions than for the US given what I assume is the majority demographic on this forum, but I could be wrong on this). In my idea of this page there would be a way for forum members to submit cafe listings.

Maybe as a measure of spam prevention there would be a minimum post limit for this board/page?

I do realize that this could be somewhat redundant given the number of other web resources available for finding Home-Barista.com caliber cafes and the threads scattered around the Knockbox and Coffees forums, but this idea pops up each time I see a new "NYC Cafes" thread or any time that I post a thread asking where the good cafes in ____ are.

Again, just an idea... I definitely see why this isn't a necessity here.

It would not be hard to setup. For example, a index thread (similar to the FAQs and Favorites at the top of each forum) and then a convention for thread titles like "Recommended Cafes in City, State". As a general rule, a new forum should be seeded by good number of threads moved from existing forums before being opened (otherwise it's like entering a empty room when you expected a party). I've not counted the existing ones, but I don't think there's that many...

Restricting the recommendations to established members would be easily handled programmatically (e.g., must be member for at least 60 days and have at least 10 previous posts).