Originally Posted by
kokonutz
Many get proposed. Fewer get voted on. Fewer still get rejected.
However, in the past, most of the suggested new fora were stopped dead in their tracks by the TB "criteria" for new forum creation. The ones that succeeded did have the numbers/evidence to support the idea and the evidence was provided, often by one or more of the supporters doing work to show the numbers.
More recently we've created several new fora just because some people think it's somehow obvious or some TB members believe that the new forum is needed or will work. Requests for the data or other evidence are ignored or worse when certain TB members want to proceed immediately regardless of the usual standards.