i like the poetry forum, and sometimes even post stuff there; it definitely saddens me to see so little come of that small corner of the board. i think the question here is about traffic vs. organization, and to be honest i'm not too partial to either. On the one hand, it's nice to have the forums neatly divided, so i know i can go to one spot and only find one brand of creativity. But on the other hand, it really kills the turnover at any particular board (especially on the Writing end), as Unne and others have said.
After all, it came up recently in feedback that a newbie forum would be bad because there'd only be newbies in it; it'd defeat the purpose of even creating the thing. Perhaps a merger would do these three artsy fora some good.
