You've probably seen the polls recently running in the Business Room about opening new subfora on Middle-earth and Games and Hobbies. The M-E subforum would gather together LotR discussion on the books and the films, plus other Tolkien writing and Tolkien-related music discussion--it would essentially make the Books subforum into Other Books, and Movies into Other Movies.
I know Estel has been working on a major restructuring that looks quite interesting. But it seems possible that the discussion won't be finished in time to really make redoing this entire board worth the effort--that we might instead simply use the new structure in setting up the new board.
Given that, would any of you object to my setting up, first the M-E subforum and then, assuming it shows a similar level of support, the Games and Hobbies one? I would undertake to do the work involved.
I think the M-E subforum would go in "Dicisne hoc opus artem esse?" with Books, Movies, and Music, since all those things would also be discussed in the M-E subforum, just relating to Tolkien. I haven't yet checked with Voronwe, who's been the force behind this one, but I will.
Games and Hobbies would be an obvious Round Table subforum--I think Alatar would agree.
I agree that we want to avoid cluttering up the board, but both these subfora would be a logical place to gather scattered threads where people would enjoy finding them together. It would help make other subfora less cluttered and more homogeneous. And it's something people seem to want that I think they could actually have without further votes and discussions or waiting until we move--I think that would be refreshing for everyone right now.
As we say around here, what say you?