OK - I finally voted...and I'll 'fess up.
The reason I hadn't voted earlier was that I was hoping the options would change after input from the rest of our crew.
I'm another who doesn't like change. Now that I scrap (or at least
shop for scrapping stuff
) I'm perfectly content with the way things are. However, when I first came here I was only interested in the cooking threads. At the time they were about half of the threads here.
We were supposed to mark our recipe threads with "R:" and scrap threads "S:" in the subject line. That worked great when people knew/remembered to do it. But as new people arrived that plan fell by the wayside and it became harder & harder to find the recipe threads - especially since Search was down most of the time back then.
When the title of this board was changed to include Crafting, the general population here seemed to change. For a while there were many posts about different crafts & the recipes got lost almost completely.
Don't misunderstand. I really enjoy all of the people who post here - regardless of their subject matter. I just think that the more topics tossed into the mix, the hard it's going to be to find the things that interest us. (If we would keep things as they are now - one board for all.)
One other thing - Very often I'll see recipe requests over on the CB. I used to just try to direct those people over here - without actually answering the question on the CB. All too often the response was that they'd tried & either it "moved too slow" or the request was "lost in the shuffle" - meaning the scrap/enabling threads.
This group has always been very welcoming to new people
in our responses. Unfortunately, the subject lines don't seem as welcoming because they're "all" scrap related. As long as our small 'community board' maintains the same friendly, inclusive atmosphere that the Cooking, Crafting and Scrapping board has I think this will work.