bigbadron:
As for access to the Discussion category, I believe the procedure, currently, is that the board gets started as a normal game, and runs as such. If it's still running after a reasonable amount of time, does not duplicate an existing user forum, consists of discussion centred on gaming, and has not given any problems with regards to content (eg: no breaches of Adult content rules, no links to illegal downloads of copyrighted material, no flame wars spilling out into the rest of the site, etc), then you can request that it be made a discussion board, and we will consider it.
See, that's what my OP question was asking.
So there is no "start it as a 'Discussion' forum Classification". It's a Game until such a time as proves it's worth and value to be more than that*... despite no one actually playing games and it being a useful resource that can't be discussed anywhere but in four advertisement forums, and then only in threads started by the owners of the 'Discussion' forum.
This is why I think the rules here are sometimes wacky.
Okay, I'll poke the owners and see if they can't shake the chain... likely they did so years ago and nothing's changed since. But eh, worth a shot.
* And I don't see any Discussion forums anywhere. So I'm betting this has never happened, which is disheartening.