There’s a pretty consistent flow of new topics regarding certification, which are locked and redirected to the ever-growing “Certification” topic in General Discussion. How about creating a new forum for Certification/Training instead?
Joe
joepeters 
(BOB member since 2002-08-29)
That’s an interesting idea. We’ll give it some consideration.
MichaelWelter 
(BOB member since 2002-08-08)
Thanks.
For what it’s worth, one benefit to splitting it out to its own forum would be improved searching. As it is, if you search for “BOCP”, you’ll get the Certification topic, but no link to the individual posts within it that match. I think this is a reason why there are so many new topics created.
joepeters (BOB member since 2002-08-29)
For what it’s worth, when searching the default return method is “Topics.” You can change that to “Posts” and you’ll get a completely different result set, displayed by post and with sample text and links to the appropriate posts.
Dave Rathbun (BOB member since 2002-06-06)
That’s useful, I didn’t even know that was there.
But I still there’s value in creating the new forum. There have been many different conversations in that one thread.
Of course, by that rule, we will also need a “Please do not post in this forum” forum…
joepeters (BOB member since 2002-08-29)
That idea has already been rejected. 
MichaelWelter (BOB member since 2002-08-08)