You've hit the nail on the head: inertia. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

Clipper ships weren't broke - they worked rather well. Yet they were replaced.

Why?

Horses, buggies, and carriages weren't broken. They were replaced, too. Train travel, the predominant for of long-distance travel, gave way simultaneously to automobiles and airplanes.

My recommendations weren't meant to fix something that I thought was borken. I didn't for one minute think Baut was broken, and am wryly amused at the inertially-backed insinuations in that direction.

Good improvements, particularly reorganizing the grouping of the few sections which are not in their logical places, is always a good idea, provided that the reorganization doesn't materially affect the content or flow of the board. With a couple decades of admin experience under my belt (I've done this before), I took such considerations well in hand before I created this thread.

I still believe that the few proposed changes would make this a better board, and would certainly appear less disjointed to newcomers. In fact, it might very well help alleviate the posting to wrong threads issue Gillianren mentioned.

Yet I'm human - I errered with respect to the Evolution thread, as has been duly noted.

Hey - it's why I created this thread, to get your feedback.

And for that matter, the proposed changes are actually so slight (less than 10%) that it's not like going from Clipper ships to steam ships. Rather, it's more like doing some re-rigging, moving a few things around so that our Clipper BAUT is a bit more streamlined, more efficient, and more effective.

Again, BAUT's not broke. But a few things are, logically, out of place, and it's time we tidy things up a bit.