Many times when I read a Bonj thread, my initial reaction is just that...a reaction. I think it's Bonj being Bonj and so I leave it a while before posting and making my feeling public. Often I then get an insight into the merits or demerits of his thread.
Unfortunately, the only feeling I get here having read all this is that he is barking up the wrong tree. The essence of this forum is diversity around a central theme of cycling. Anyone can post in a forum about cycling and get responses about cycling from cycling people. However, on many occasions, I and many others want to discuss other matters, be they lightweight and humerous or heavyweight and serious. That is why I enjoy Shaun's baby. The thing is, I have that choice.
Bonj's current scheme is not IMHO completely without merit, but it runs the risk of fragmenting what is mostly a united forum in that many "personalised" fora or pages will be set up and those pages would be visited probably only by fans and disciples of those individuals. Inevitably as time went on each personalised forum would evolve into a mini version of what we have now, but each visited by fewer people.
Is that what we really want? It is the all-embracing inclusiveness which is the forum's strength and is what attracts newbies (and sometimes weeds out the undesirables).
Sorry Bonj, no offence intended, but if you feel so strongly about this I think you should set up your own forum.
