Can't people just NOT READ the things that don't interest them? Heck, I don't read posts about gelcoat repair, but I don't want boat maintenance to have its own forum. I love the variety on the forums. That's why there are different threads on different subjects.

It is great that this forum is so active -- it has definitely justified its existence as a forum separate from the Open Forum.

And the more posts there are on this forum, the more active and popular the class appears to be to outsiders. So I don't think you would want to break it up into different forums for different categories.

Very few people are interested in reading about or thinking about rules, and most people are smart enough to only read what interests them -- just like when reading a newspaper.