Requesting new forum: Coral. attn: Admins

[Myka]

Originally Posted by fishytime

I honestly hope we dont end up like RC.....if canreef ends up being a stuck up, holier than thou, you have to have 10000 posts or a 2000g tank for anyone to answer your questions and your post is buried in a day type forum, it will loose its appeal to me.......... Titus would like it if were like RC, but not I

I guess if that's the way you want to see it. If there were 1000 active tank journals on CanReef you could bet that only the biggest, most awesome journals would get replies. Even here on CanReef there are few replies on newbie tank journal threads.

Back to the subject though, I don't think adding another forum to CanReef would be anywhere near Reef Central category.

[Snaz]

To those that responded "I only look at the new threads anyway." I completely understand, that is in fact how I primarily read Canreef but how about the new visitors? Reef Forum has 21K+ posts while the next biggest forum "Pictures" has 3K posts and the average is 1500 for the rest of the forums. I think some division is needed. I have a new interest in SPS and I would LOVE to browse the SPS posts easily but I can't.

Last night I scrapped the last 100 reef posts dating back to mid July and did some quick stats. According to my sample the most talked about topic in Reef forum is corals/anemones at 19% of total posts. Water chemistry was second at 14% and ID was 12%.

I think Reef forum is too bloated and needs to be divided. To those that worry we will become RC need not fret. RC's problems like anything that is community built is the community. Being Canadian and being cool we have a great community here at Canreef and regardless of how our posts are divided that will not change.

Here are my stats to those interested.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...kRKVU1NNEV3b0E

Cheers,
Keith.