Quote Originally Posted by coqauvin View Post
There was no point in creating 'the Great Outdoors', because people posting guns and talking about fishing happend outside of it anyway, sans moderation.

to quote atmosfear: "a precedent has been established for sub-forums with limited interest to be created in a more general forum"

the armory was one of the slowest sub-forums on LWS, a site with signifigantly heavier traffic than this site receives. However, it gets revived here, and experiences traffic as well.

The forum is not zero-sum; people who post will psot in this sub-forum in addition to regular posting elsewhere. There is no finite amount of posts each person has and uses in a single session.
That's not what I'm worried about. I'm worried because strict moderation in one area is the gateway to strict moderation all over. Plus AI also attracts the worst kind of faggots, which will then spread around the forum. Making the smarties have to deal with the occasional digression and idiocy keeps pretentiousness away.