So at one time people are complaining that there aren't enough music threads, and they are outnumbered by the non-music threads.

And then, when the split is introduced and it demonstrates that this is in fact the reverse of the truth, and that, as always, by far the majority of the threads relate to music, what do we get? A complaint that there are too many music threads.

I'm against any further extension of the split, at any rate on the lines of the music/BS style division, though it's worked well enough for that.

Perhaps some tweaking of the prefixes might be in order. (God, that sounds bloody painful...) But I can't actually see a way that would really work, given the way threads can drift around all over the place. And trying to break things apart on a national or regional basis would risk destroying one of the most valuable aspects of the place, which is that it tears down this kind of division which threatens to blind us when we rely on a parochial mass media. (And the bigger the country, it seems, the more parochial.)

All right, it's got to a stage where it'd be pretty unfeasable for anyone to keep up with all the threads, and maybe that takes away from a certain type of community feeling. Yes, and maybe it might be getting harder for newcomers to find their feet, and if that'strue it's a real shame. But I don't think technical fixes like that are going to solve that one.