tell me what you think of splitting 'a&e' into a separate forum

[Sniper]

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Sniper,
So, OffTopic w/ 50m posts and 140k members has split its focus area (offtopic) into 47 subforums.
2+2 w/ 5m posts and 50k members has split its focus area (poker/gambling) into 37 subforums.
OffTopic has one subforum for Gambling/Poker.
2+2 has five subforums for Other Topics.
What was your point again?
(And yeah, I know you were prob just messing around)

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I posted this in the mod forum, and I'll repost it here for those looking for empirical evidence that splitting out major categories from OOT is a good idea...

"Additionally, if you look at Forum post counts... of 43 forums, sporting events is #9 and politics is #11... these are clearly substantive forums on 2+2 that were split out of OOT."

Finally, I will say that even with those splits, OOT is still running strong at #1... and despite all the defensive territorial protection posts... there is no reason to believe that the overall page views across 2+2 will be harmed by yet another spinoff of a major category getting lost in OOT, but that has a clear champion in diebitter to ensure its success as a seperate forum!