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Orientational Poll: A child board for Indochina/Vietnam?

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Westfalia Chris:
Hi all,

over the last few weeks, I've been getting renewed requests for a Vietnam-themed sub-board to the Cold War board.

Normally, we try to avoid board proliferation, for obvious reasons - topically-related issues can be split up, and there is more risk of duplicate content (requests, crowdfunding topics) since existing threads might be missed. Visibility of the more specific threads drops for the casual user who doesn't access the specific board directly, or uses the "unread topics" view.

Still, the number of Vietnam-related threads has increased quite noticeably, obviously prompted by the release of various nice new figure ranges. So, I thought I'd get a quantifiable opinion picture from those folks frequenting the Cold War board.

First off, since I cannot define a proper quorum, be advised that this poll will be strictly non-binding. Neither the LAF administration or myself as Cold War moderator will be bound by the result to proceed in a given way, but I will give any outcome supported by decent voter numbers due consideration, which will be helped if you choose to elaborate on your vote in a reply posting by making an argument for your chosen option.

The poll will run for four days (until Saturday evening GMT).

The ground rules for the new board would be as follows:


* The timeframe would be 1945 to 1975, that is, from the end of WW2 to the Fall of Saigon.
* That means that it will encompass the beginnings of the Việt Minh movement, the French Indochina War, the years before the escalation of US involvement, from Tonkin Bay to the Paris Peace Accords, and the "Vietnamization" era.
* Out of scope would be the Colonial era, WW2 and the Japanese occupation, as well as the Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia and the Sino-Vietnamese war of 1979.
* Note that all new topics within the scope will have to be posted on the "Indochina" board.
* All rules of conduct specified by the general forum rules and the Cold War board rules apply.
* Following its implementation, the board will run for a minimum period of six months. If it proves a fad and the fashion fizzles by then, we reserve the right to fold back the "Indochina" board into the Cold War board.
Please feel free to discuss below.

Blackwolf:
I have a feeling, which I'm probably wrong about; that opening up another board would lead to the demise of the first,a redundancy  if you like. I think I'd prefer no split.
Cheero
Guy

Roo:
It’s a current fashion driven by some wonderful new ranges.  Could prove to be a precedent for other boards which could lead to me missing some great posts from many talented folk!

Dr. Zombie:
The Cold War board is not the most active board on LAF so diverting traffic to another sub board seems unnecessary.

Silent Invader:
It’s a “no split” from me  :)

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