SunDeep
Banned
The ASB forum is currently labelled 'asb and other magic', or something like that.
Were it called 'asb, magic and deep divergence' that would make things more... politically acceptable, perhaps.
Besides, it's Iain's board and he can do whatever he wants. This whole poll is, imo, a bit presumptuous, especially the way some people are wording their posts.
A few of the posts may be worded a bit presumptiously, but the poll was just to gauge public opinion, to see how people in general feel about this issue. And given that 111 people thus far have come out and said that they would prefer a new forum/sub-forum, you'd presume that at least half of those voters would at least take the trouble to visit that new forum/sub-forum if one were created, and that at least a tenth of the 'yes' voters may be interested enough to bother posting new threads there. The accumulated evidence in this poll, and speed with which those votes were collected, would seem to suggest that the proposed forum/sub-forum would be at least as active as the Future History Discussion forum; potentially even more so.
As such, based upon the evidence stacking up against it, the argument that such a forum/sub-forum couldn't hope to support itself is now baseless, disproven beyond reasonable doubt. Now, it's just down to Iain and the other moderators' personal opinions. While they aren't obliged to do anything, and we have to accept their decision, I'd like to believe that they are still prepared to listen to the people who post on their forum, taking our views and opinions into account before making their decisions. Only their actions can show whether my faith in them, our faith in them, is well-placed or not.