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

[diebitter]

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BT,

I suspect that what I earlier said to db applies to you as well:

I suspect you do not have any experience on the business side of high volume content/discussion sites, is that correct? Your arguments all center around what you, a specific profile of user whose interests do not seem to coincide with the core demographics of this site, would like to see in a site. That's a reasonable position for you to take, but unlikely to be one that's in the best business interests of 2+2.

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-- El Diablo
No, I have no experience of this. I bet virtually all speakers here, for and against, don't either. Do you?

I've avoided this because it comes across as nitty, but I guess you keep plugging it, so I'll play it out.

Your argument consists of promoting fear, uncertainty and doubt, presenting the very worst-case scenario coupled with questioning our credentials about judging this.

Again, I'll state, I have no experience of this. I talk anecdotally about what I think will benefit 2+2, and have no statistical/numeric proof or experience in this arena.

Please tell us what experience you have of large-scale discussion fora, and what proofs you have that creating a new forum like this has a reasonable chance of removing a significant part of the user base?

If you can't, then you'e also talking anecdotally and without statistical/numeric/experiential backing, and we resort to plain anecdotal argument again.

If you can, please tell if your experience is direct, or a 'friend-of-a-friend'/urban legend type deal (or tell what the source is).

I'd also appreciate a qualification of failures/successes, for example, does every change mean failure, and if not, waht is the ratio of success/failure in this arena?

If you can't, you're sort of saying any change === failure, which I think most of us would see as a deeply flawed statement.

db