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I have always found separate forums to be "tacky".. If you think about it okay sure a lot of people do it because not everyone can register here. But now your creating a separate environment where you still can't please everyone because not everyone wants to join a separate forum. So while you gain members, you lose some too. Then stack the fact that now that your forums are separate members of other communities will likely not be browsing your forums, seeing your updates, and aware of what is going on. So you literally lose that power of enticement to draw people in from other servers. Honestly, there is no perfect win situation however I see more downfalls to having a separate forum for everything. It's disappointing that unixmad made these forums "free for anyone" but you still need a community name. Since I don't think he even changed anything.. this account I am posting on has not been gold in almost a year and once you had a community name and gold you could register and your access was a lifetime anyways.