After creating this simple message board, the politics section over there slowed to a crawl but other sections were fine, particularky the Back Alley.

Then, as people wandered over to other simple message boards devoted to topics (ex: R&E), I opened this one from political discussion to general discussion.

Then, only the Back Alley saw activity. It served its purpose of keeping extreme anger off of this board so we didn't turn into a "hate board" like the others did.

I've considered opening a new simple message board for that purpose, but not sharing the address outside of our Private Message system so that the trolls don't find and constantly read it like they did the forum version. I might, but so far am leaning towards might not.

If I did, it would also be log in only and linked to this board so no one needed another log in, they'd just use this one.

Looking for feedback on if it's needed or everyone is cool?