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

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Okay, let's get it clear what's being proposed, to my mind.

OOT stays as is.

A separate entertainment forum springs up.

You can post what you like about entertainment in either. I suggest OOT stay on its own turf and don't go in Entertainment, simple as that.

I for one got tired long ago of posting reviews in OOT to see em sink (yada yada Kingpin etc etc) and said nothing, just cut back the reviewing severely. I posit that a ton of people cut back or don't bother because of the flushing effect

But once someone started the discussion, I made a case for it. I think my points have been fair, and they've been argued back fairly, so I feel this has been a worthwhile discussion personally.

But still...I would welcome a new forum for music, TV, films, books. And if it doesn't happen, fine, no problem. I'll do the odd review, roll my eyes when some asshat whines about how lame OOT has got with its film reviews, but I'll be cool.


But do some of you guys think I'm alone among posters in wanting and welcoming such a forum?

If you think so, then what are you guys worrying about?

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I would probably visit OOT less if there was a split, but that attention would just be directed to an A&E forum. A separate forum is about the only thing that could ever motivate me to review movies very often at all. A movie review takes a lot more effort than a regular post, and there seems no point to doing them in OOT, to me.

I predict that eventually the people who do them occasionally now, like pryor and DB, will feel the same way and get tired of it too, and movie reviews will drop off sharply, especially ones that anyone put any effort into. That would be a shame, and I don't look forward to it. I'm sure we could keep a more active interest in the subject if it were in a forum that wasn't overwhelmed by fart jokes.

So I think both diebitter and El D are right in their own ways. Some people will visit OOT less, and the quality of OOT will go down a lot for some people -- but little for others, many of whom are very negative toward movie reviews and toward reviewers. So I guess some people would like to see less reviews! The tone of OOT might change somewhat, but I'm not all that sure that I care or that that's important -- it might simply be a matter of following two non-poker forums instead of one, which isn't exactly a hard thing to do.

So OOT will be worse, but the contributions people make along the lines of A&E will probably go way up, but elsewhere. I'm pretty sure most people who like A&E have little motivation to start threads on it in a forum in which those threads are essentially wasted and blasted off the page by poop jokes, but they may come out of the woodwork to create a healthy and interesting A&E forum.