Well while I think we can say a lot in the general discussion thread and then everyone can see/would see it, I think organizationally it works better to be a separate section in order to be able to find things.

One problem I have seen on other boards is that there is literally so much stuff going on, some ideas get lost or are not pursued.

It doesn't change the nature of the discussion we could have in the general discussion, it just provides a specific haven for specific action.

"How about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy
asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join
the master race. How's that for a religion?"
-- Frank Zappa, to a concert audience at the Rockpile, Toronto, May 1969

"There's one thing that has stayed constant throughout time. It's an instinctual part of man to conquer evil. The battle of good over evil in this world has not changed. It has remained constant throughout the millennia." - Kyle Thomas Brennan