I thing separate forums would in fact make it harder to find things. Like all the separate sections in newspapers. You read something, and then you can't remember which section it was in, and whether it was the one you put down for the cat to scratch on.

But then the very things I'd not want changed and eliminate are the very things other people might like to change and eliminate. For example, I reckon separate forums would bugger up creative thread drift and make everything much more disciplined and ordered. Neat and clean and well advised.

Maybe it'd be possible to have some gizmo under which you'd push a button, and only the threads with the requisite prefix would appear on your screen, and you could treat it as if it was a separate forum. Of course that'd only work if there were the right prefixes, and people used them. And in any case I wouldn't use them, preferring the full Monty.