If you were ever at all interested to talk gaming with me, I WANT TO! But *I* need a cordoned off space on the board to do it.And, if I am ever going to be involved in the conversation, it can't be in a separate space. It's not that I won't want to be there, I just don't have the time. I skip in most of the threads that I actually consider myself active in already.
We have the Suck feature and I use it. I grab the thread, vanity search to look for anything brought to my attention (thus enabling conversations in a fast-moving thread) or addressed to me, read the last however many posts I have time for and then jump into the talk or wait until the waters suit me better.
Splitting the gaming (because this is the topic currently) conversation off from some of the main threads means that I will never see it. And currently? Yes, I might miss it. But I might catch it and get caught up in a fascinating conversation I hadn't planned or expected.
It's not ideal, no. But I don't prefer the alternative. And I am just one vote.