tropicman
Fishaholic
Would it be possible for a loach forum that way you can post topics just about loaches in the forum and not in the other places like other catfish because most people do not know that they are cyprinids 
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demonmagus
spamming my way to the top...
do you not think the forum is getting too many sub-divisions?
Loaches are Cyprinids, therefore the logical place for a loach forum would be within the Cyprinids forum. If it were not there, people would ask why the Loach forum was not under Cyprinids.
pica_nuttalli
don't be a twit
also, there really aren't that many Loach threads showing up in Catfish nowadays. or at least not in "Other Catfish". (i'm not certain that creating a designated forum would help the sort of people asking about loaches in "Corys" or "Plecos" 
)
)personally i dont think we should, i think having so many sub-forums would just be ridiculous, if we got a sub-forum for what everyone wanted then we would have them for everything. If we carry on having so many sub-forums we'll have sub-forums for tetras, barbs, danios, stingrays, arowanas, snakeheads, bichirs etc etc, and to be honest, why should people who want those sub-forums not have them whilst you get a loach forum?
OohFeeshy
It's only forever; not long at all...
Just to point out, I see how *incredibly* busy and useful the latest sub-forum has been...
Miss Wiggle
Practically perfect in every way
hmmm i just checked, no posts for the last 4 days. hardly a hive of activity really.
while i don't think we should rule out all sub forums i think some careful consideration should be given when selecting them. perhaps someone could devise a traffic criteria for how many posts there should be per day/week to warrant a sub-forum.
it's easy enough to run a search within a forum for the proposed sub-forum (e.g. loach) in the last month and ge the total number of posts. if someone could maybe set a benchmark for how much activity is needed to warrant a sub forum it would be an easy way to decide without entering into arguments over if it's needed. either it fulfill's the criteria or not, and you could maybe do it for the last 6 months so your results don't get clouded by someone posting up a load of questions just to get the traffic up which would only be temporary
Miss Wiggle
Practically perfect in every way
killifish, under oddballs
OohFeeshy
It's only forever; not long at all...
Which is my point. Before the split, there were problably one, two killie questions a month (and most of them either 'I've got a 2.5g, what killies, or about panchax). Then when the topic of a subforum came up, it miraculously increased overnight, strangely the same person had at least five burning killie questions warranting different topics for each. Then when the hype went down, so did the activity. And now it's been split, there was the customary 'oh, great, I've always wanted to know...' topics, and now, back to nil. No doubt these mentions will bring up a few lone killie fans from the depths to prove the forum isn't dead, but alas, too little, too staged.
On a different note, have the forum links changed, or was I just not looking before? E.G, the newbie section is now 'http
/www.fishforums.net/New-to-the-hobby-f26.html'... Tres odd.
Miss Wiggle
Practically perfect in every way
Yeah I noticed that earlier too, had to double check a few links worked i wasn't sure if i'd just made a balls of it somehow!! 
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