I said, to me it makes sense to have a (sub)forum for AI of its own. I wanted to get all the general pro & con AI stuff and above all the garbage out of the rest. I reconsidered it in the last days, and to me it makes no difference if we had a few threads about that topic running parallel, as long as they are specific and technically useful.
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SirDice's point of view.
A very long time ago I moderated a forum myself (very small - not even remotely comparable with this one here.)
To add a new forum, subforum, subsection - call it what you like - is technically done quickly and easily. But that's not the point. The point is: Once you created it, it's very hard if not impossible to
remove it again.
You say, 'Just give it a shot' which is understandable. But you need to see if there is enough traffic/interest/usage/posts to warrant an own forum of its own. If not, there is a dry if not dead branch, which you cannot cut that simple anymore. Because it contains stuff that needed to be sorted into other places. And it's highly probable you aggrieve a few people when you close it down, when there are two or three left, posting there.
Apart from that then everybody come and claim a special subforum of its own. But you cannot give every two or three people want to discuss something special their own sideshow. Otherwise you end up like you would organize your $HOME with giant trees of sub-sub-sub-sub-...directories; having many directories containing just single files, none at all, or better being zipped away into some archive, because they are not needed anymore. This way you gain the exact opposite of the idea of what subdivison is for: confusing chaos instead of order - with lots of dead weight. Very hard to clean up. Worst case means to better shutdown the place and restart all over. Not a good idea if you have any valuable stuff in it.
So better be careful and think at least twice, before you may accidently open pandora's box, and drown the useful stuff in chaos.
