S'mon said:
I guess I'm having trouble coping with my complete powerless here. The need for a minis forum in EN World, the primary d20 discussion board on the Internet, is IMO blindingly obvious, far more so than for non-game topics like books & movies. Getting dozens of votes in support of this view doesn't appear to count though.
I can understand your disappointment, but try to remember that what seems blindingly obvious to you may not seem so to others. And, not to be impolite, but the fact that you think it is needed doesn't make it true. Perhaps you should step back a bit from your personal wish to have this discussion separated, and think about what's good for the topic.
Dozens of votes really isn't much compared to the couple of thousand
"fairly active" users. Your poll suggests that only a few people are dedicated enough to this aspect of the hobby to actually go to the proposed new forum. If you move minis discussion to such a forum under these conditions, you will lose posters like myself, who occasionally dabble with a mini or two, but only read threads on the topic when I happen to run into them. You'll only get the hardcore folks, and them only sometimes.
Let me reiterate - under these conditions, creating a new forum will
reduce the amount of discussion on the topic. Fewer readers, fewer posts. Is that what you really want?
Apparently the only thing that can get a new forum made is people who hate seeing minis threads complaining that there are too many in General! Forum creation is seen as a punishment for undesirable topics. ie if you want a forum, you can't have it.
You seem to misunderstand. Complaints are merely an indicator that a new forum is called for. If a single topic generates enough traffic to cause people to complain, then it's popular enough to consider a new forum. That's all.
Yes, if you (an individual) want a forum, you can't have it. If you think you feel powerless now, imagine how powerless you'd feel if every poster who felt a new forum was deserved got one? How many sub-forums would we have? How ragged would the mods feel, spending all their time making sure threads were in the right place so you could find them? Fragmentation into many small forums isn't good for the community, and so Morrus reasonably resists doing so. He's considering the needs of the community in general, and of his mods. I'm sorry if this leaves you disappointed, and I'm sure Morrus is too. But, there are larger concerns he must take into account.
