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ego,

If I were running this site and trying to maximize non-poker traffic, I would find out what the key elements of OOT are that keep more people from participating (strippers, poop, NSFW, whatever) and ban those topics from OOT.

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El D,

I meant to address that point when you made it in an earlier post and will do so now. As an alternative to creating a separate A&E forum which I favor, I would be a supporter of this. And the problem isn't really that a certain topic might offend posters in general, because the content of a thread is usually obvious from its title and they don't have to click on it, but rather the sheer volume of such stuff that drowns out most A&E threads except for the relatively few of which explode into very popular threads.

At the same time, if as an alternative 2+2 created a sex/relationships/NSFW/bathroom humor forum, then that itself might have the same effect on OOT you are saying splitting off A&E would. Plus it seems to me it would take an aweful lot of arbitrary modding, greater than that which exists now, in the forum already most heavily modded.