>>312117>What is the obsession with people wanting to make dozens and dozens of new boards?I only ever saw that during the first week after Hiro's Q&A. These days it seems like most people have just settled on /his/, some want /fur/ and /rel/, and some want /v/ split further. Anyway, serious answer time:
1) People want to give their topic a home (e.g. /his/, though it is yet to be seen if it can separate itself from /int/ and /pol/ quality), and usually this interest appears requested enough to warrant a new board.
2) People want boards for containment, e.g. /cpsht/ and /cel/. The belief is that the creation of these boards will remove certain undesirable topics away. This was what boards like /jp/ and /vp/ were originally created for, so there is somewhat of a precedence.
3) And of course, people just ask for boards without thinking. There really isn't a way to rationalize this other than they were bored and thought something like /poly/ for the polyamory community would be a good idea without taking into account the size. There's slow boards, and then there are dead boards.
I suppose further reasoning is that they would want creation of a new board so they can have their discussion without being corralled into a general thread on another existing board (this is what /int/ used to do with their /his/ threads but I haven't seen those in a long time).
