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Fario-P said:
I don't actively start/make many forum threads, because most ideas I might want to talk about are already made by other users.
Practically every "favorite anime opening/ending/quote/music etc." topic already has their own thread, with even several repeat threads from users who aren't aware of older threads. I have literally lost count of how many times I have seen a new "overrated/underrated anime" thread or a "what manga/video game should be adapted to anime" thread, where the latter of which also appears under the Manga Discussion and Games, Computers & Tech Support boards as well as the Anime Discussion board. Don't get me wrong, I do think about these kinds of popular topics all the time and do participate in some of these threads (even if they are repeated), but I feel like it'd be pointless to start a brand new thread under that topic just to get people talking about it when a thread for that already exists.

So when I do make a new thread, I usually try to think of unique topics to talk about and what questions would help facilitate discussion on it.
I will literally go as far as to use the "Search Forum" feature several times under several search terms and/or forum boards just to make sure that the topic I have in mind at the moment hasn't been done before. Sure, my very first forum thread, "Any manga that you'd like to see animated IF made with changes from source material", isn't terribly unique as it's basically another "what manga do you want to see adapted?!" thread. But because most people will obviously want to see the source material represented faithfully in an adaptation, I decided to explore the question from another angle and see what answers I could get from it. Surely not every manga is perfect, so what if there were some manga out there that were decent, but could be improved upon by an anime adaptation that decided to make meaningful changes? I'm sure there are some anime adaptations of manga that people prefer way more over the source material—I mean, for instance, I literally never hear anything about K-On other than from its anime adaptation by KyoAni lol.

With all that in mind, I decided to make my very first thread in the way that I did. I continued to make attempts at unique topics for threads, and while that means that many of them are pretty niche, I do at least hope that they bring some new discussions to the table. I admit that I am very proud of my latest forum thread about music boxes in anime, despite the little amount of discussion it's got at the moment.
The one exception within my "unique" threads would probably be my "Cooks of MAL, what dish(es) in anime would you like to attempt at recreating" thread. At the time, I had wanted to talk about recreating specific dishes from anime, and it turned out that a thread with that specific topic had already existed. However, the thread was locked... for no reason. There wasn't even a forum moderator post stating why it had been locked, and the topic still seemed discussion-worthy for me... seems like a weird decision to me. So when I did create this "new" anime food thread, I made sure to note that it was a spiritual successor to an unfortunate victim of an innocent forum topic being shut off into the darkness of the internet for all eternity.

So I guess my (personal) general rule of thumb for creating a new forum topic is that it has to be a topic that wasn't done before by an older thread that is still available to post on. If the idea's already been done and is still available for discussion (aka not locked), I may necrobump an older thread (provided that it's under a forum board that doesn't have a no-necrobumping-past-2-weeks rule) instead of making a repeat thread. I also like to make sure that the thread starts off with a first post that provides a decent amount of context for the topic, presents some discussion questions, and a few images just so your eyes don't get tired of seeing nothing but walls and walls of text.
Hey, I just want the opening post to look nice. ♪