I took it to be humorous but I could be wrong!

Sorry for the delayed response.  

IMHO, as a qualification, the poll should ask that only relevant persons should vote on the poll.  i.e. people from other regions that would have no interest in an Asian forum to begin with should not respond.  this way, it limits the response to the target audience of the forum and if such target audience does or does not think it would be useful to have such a forum.  also, perhaps we can remove the word VERY from the first response.  

i.e.

Yes, I think it would be useful, and I would participate.

No, I do not think it would be useful, and I would not participate.

I would prefer a different forum and have written out my suggestion below.

for what it's worth... just my thoughts

The poll does suggest that only involved members should reply, but this is clearly impossible to police. I think the very is not going to influence choices very much. I agree about the third choice and have made the poll open so people can respond underneath. I confess to being underwhelmed by the response so far! This is not a huge surprise - I am sure you have found running a forum that the vast majority of users tend to be silent and use the forum as a resource rather than actually posting. We will see how many posts we get by the the 3nd of March.

Yes, but how to determine who is involved? Why not let all members vote? 

I would like to vote, but I'm not sure I'm involved. Guess many users think like this.

I would imagine that the people most involved would be those residing in Asia or who have an interest in the Asian region. I agree that diversifying BeoWorld has a few problems and runs the risk of spreading us a bit thin. However an earnest request has been made and the site is, as it will always do, reacting to a well reasoned thought. For us to implement this will require a fairly large number of positive votes - at present there are two. I do accept that those outside the Asian region will have views and no doubt this will result in some negative votes. We will, however, mainly be looking at positive votes to see the level of desire for such a forum.

There is of course also the Group Area which is open to anyone who wishes to start a group sharing a particular interest. This may be an alternative.

tournedos wrote:

Apart from the few non-English subforums we have, I'd much rather see division by topic as it mostly is now. The Workshop, Vintage and Beogram subforums work well in my view, and probably deserve their isolation because the majority of the readers don't seem interested in them (judged solely on the count of views they get).

I always forget they are there...

I always post in the General forum or the classifieds area. I very rarely venture in to the other areas. I think the less areas the better.....

Jonathan wrote:

tournedos wrote:

Apart from the few non-English subforums we have, I'd much rather see division by topic as it mostly is now. The Workshop, Vintage and Beogram subforums work well in my view, and probably deserve their isolation because the majority of the readers don't seem interested in them (judged solely on the count of views they get).

I always forget they are there...

I always post in the General forum or the classifieds area. I very rarely venture in to the other areas. I think the less areas the better.....

I use the Active Topics function to scan all forums: