More forum space will allow more interesting conversations over more than one thread.
And by my count, nine out of forty-five of the threads on the first page of the forum are dedicated to Clausewitz games.
And most of the threads on this page aren't even active, including those paradox ones. There is PLENTY of space in AoG. Making a subforum won't magically make it better.
It's a lot better than having to sift through all the generic threads in AOG. I am sure the people who want to talk Paradox will be able to find the subforum labelled "Paradox." We don't need our hands holding.
There aren't many threads to "sift through" in AoG.
Get rid of the crappy forums that no one visits and make a new Paradox one. You guys a making a mountain out of a molehill. If it doesn't work then get rid of the forum at a later date; nothing major.
Seeing how the moderation has completely failed to do anything about the dead subforums except move the Spore forum to AoG so it takes hogs screenspace that is unlikely. The mods don't like undoing what they have done, either.
Look at this thread alone; it has over 2000 posts about every Paradox game.
There is no sense at all in keeping numerous defunct, empty forums when they could be cleaned up and replaced with one that could actually see some use. How it could "reduce traffic" is beyond me, all it does is add one extra click to people's search. If anything, it would work out quicker as they won't have to look through threads related to a whole host of other games too.
As has been repeatedly pointed out and
proven by the other subforums, it
will get a decrease in the amount of traffic. Yes, clicking an extra button actually
is a problem and an entirely unnecessary move for a topic that barely takes up a few active threads and
is one of the main things keeping AoG alive.
These subforums were all set up with the same idea, that they would be busy enough to warrant their own sub-forum. A few of them maybe did for a while, but for the most part they stopped being active in more than a thread (at most) years ago. Even the Total War forum is unnecessary (or at least ON THE WRONG PAGE).
I have long sicne gotten sickand tired of scrolling pas so many dead forums just ot get to the actual threads in AoG.