Mary2e

I think it may be easiest/better for the membership to be able to weigh in for new forum suggestions. For example, there could be an admin sticky at the top of each forum informing the membership that new forums are being considered and a link to a discussion, either in Talk Board topics or somewhere else.

This may be the best way to gauge whether or not there is interest in a new forum.

As for removing forums, I think a good measure is traffic, or lack thereof. The measure could be determined by the Talk Board and approved by Randy.