[diebitter]

-- El D.

I think it's a great idea, personally. Let OOters decide where they think their entertainment stuff best fits...why not?

There's a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt about all this, but anyone who goes through changes will know, usually, you end up with some middle ground that is nowhere near the extremes that get touted when transition happens.

Here's my prediction (likely to be just as wrong as all the others, admittedly):

An Ent forum will end up sort of like the 'ent reference' for OOT, PLUS a lot of non-OOTers will start feeding into it. I do believe an awful lot of OOTers will freely move between OOT and ENT when they visit. I think OOT and ENT will be the two most closely-aligned/cross-visited fora here (in the OT section, anyway).

Take me...I personally go to the SMP a lot cos it interests me, and I think the stuff it raises is excellent in its own forum. I think if it were in OOT, I'd miss some of it - and the discussions it has would be much shorter and less interesting. I avoid politics/sport cos I don't like them, and are therefore I'm glad they're in their own forum. I think the same will be true of ENT, you get interested people visiting, but they won't be deserting OOT for ENT, will they?

And there's no way I'm gonna stop visiting/posting in OOT if all this happens. I bet a lot of people will be exactly the same...you included [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Hell, this may even get these OOT-virgins throughout the strats into OOT by the back door...