Thank you Goofyhoofy for writing the non-political post. The recs were high and I believe if all authors here can have the discipline to separate the political posts out to the US Policy board, including avoiding to even add political brief remarks, this this board will attract an additional audience not previously present.

Some posters had left early and will be likely to return if they see more diversity of subject here, and perhaps even some of the regulars at the large Berkshire Hathaway board will read and write posts here occasionally, adding more diversity of authorship again.

The difficulty with the political posts is not the individual posts, but rather the phenomenon that they cause reactions and so end up flooding all other subjects unwittingly, and the readership falls to only those wanting to read the political posts - which they can now do on the US Policy board instead.

In summary keeping US Policy and Atheist Shrewds fairly mutually exclusive will increase the readership and diversity of subjects *in aggrehate*.

This will take a bit of discipline from everyone here, but it will leave two boards with higher *aggregate value* than the single board before.

- Manlobbi