[KoiCop]

I most emphatically reject the idea (which some would seem to espouse?) that all boards should be all things to all people at all levels of the greater ponding hobby (frogs and bogs and such).

Instead, I see the various boards being analagous to our educational system where different grades of students are congregated until they can (&/or want to) pass on to the next level. Newbie boards, koi-lite boards and advanced boards.

In this manner, there's an established hierarchy of boards corresponding to elementary school, middle school, junior high school, high school, college, graduate school, &/etc. Folks can participate at whatever level they're qualified and interested, teach and learn as the case may be, without having every advanced level discussion interrupted by someone just learning the basics.

Finally, Carl, because the phrase 'grow the hobby' has the same sort of cachet about it that the term 'herd' did, and for many of the same reasons, just the mention of it by you (the President of WWKC and KP's chief cat herder) imparts a negative connotation to many members of this board.

And that's not a fact that promotes discussion.