That’s a fair point, but in defense of my point, you have an entire contingent of posters (and yes I understand I may be biased) that immediately refuse to engage and just respond to any point they don’t like with “take it to the CR”.
All the while giving potshots of their own opposing views, and of course, this may be bait, but it works, because they refuse to engage in an actual conversation in the correct place.
I get that it is hard to do a trail run. Might I suggest locking both forums and creating a new trial run all encompassing forum? You and I are just speculating one way or the other will or won’t work, but neither of us know for sure. My assumption is locking both and creating another gives you a somewhat reversible way to switch back if the thunderdome doesn’t work.
My hope is this allows yall to do less moderating outside a single cesspool, and also does not choke the golden goose that is recruiting. But I’m just suggesting ideas.