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Vote on your preference for Rifle forums

Which Rifle forum format do you prefer?

  • A single forum like it was from the beginning

    Votes: 76 33.6%

  • The three forums as they are now

    Votes: 150 66.4%
  • Total voters
    226
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Not going to be split by black rifle / everything else either.

There are entire boards devoted to that subject. They are specific, we are a general forum.
 
Im kinda mixed on it. It has its benifits to be split, but also its kind of not in keeping with the "longarm" area either. With the Semi, bolt/lever/pump, and general forums for rifles, it in turn makes the shotgun area, with its single subforum, seem confusing.

I think either both the rifle and shotgun forums should be split in some similar way, or not. Makes for an easier way to search or just browse.
 
The reason the shotgun area isn't going to be split in a similar fashion is simple -- it isn't busy enough to warrant it.

The handgun forums were the first ones that were split, over a decade ago. It was done because a single handgun forum was just too unwieldy.

On an active day a thread could be posted, and end up on the second page, within an hour, and on the third page, or farther back, in less than 24 hours.

The posting rate was simply too fast for either staff or members to keep up with.

We were getting to that point with a single rifle forum.

If, and ONLY if, the shotgun forum becomes as busy as the rifle forum was a month ago, then that's when we'll consider splitting it.

Not before.
 
We can close this now as we have enough votes to know which direction to take.

From the very beginning of the poll, the votes were just about 2 to 1 to keep the three forums as they are now. That trend never changed. So there is no doubt that, even if we kept the poll going for a longer time, the result would be different.

The Rifle forums will remain as they are now.
 
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