My two cents on the topic as a lowly forum participant. I use forums a lot, both here and other places. I don't see an easy way to disentangle the UA forum into two subforums without some other event (such as a merger subforum). Right now, if you wanted to break off MP talk, then I'd suggest 90% of the discussions would be impacted due to the fact that status impacts all interractions with UA. One could just as easily suggest a forum break of GS, 1K, 1P, 2P, 3P, GM, and "unenlightened".
That's not what I found with a random sample of posts. Did you try it?
There's always some overlap in some posts even today with the layout they have today. Does the walkway from domestic to international at SFO thread belong in the UA forum, or in the San Francisco forum? Do threads about the restaurants at the rotunda in the domestic UA terminal at SFO belong in the UA forum or in the San Francisco forum? Sometimes they are moved to SF, sometimes not. You can easily come up with dozens and dozens of examples.
If that's an issue, let's just get rid of all the forums and post everything in one giant pool. It's not a very good argument, just as having one giant pool wouldn't be very useful either. But that's basically what we have today in the UA forum due to the sheer volume of posts there.
Trust me, I already know this is going nowhere.
Basically people are afraid to try something new and say all kinds of things about how it's working perfectly as it is in order to justify it.
I'm afraid we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
-David