(In order to avoid possible confusion: Just now I got to this thread though the CSR/Index sub-forum)
Now this solution is kind of... lame, I guess. Yes, the Aux Brigades are overcrowded. With tons of dead threads at the bottom, but no one cares about them. On the other hand we had 5-6 active threads at the top where people "visited" each other. At least I did. And it worked. It worked well at that, I think. I like what the CSR-crew did with their guidelines, after I more or less forced them to do it while not doing anything for it myself after that. At least I have the illusion it was me who pressured them into doing it, but they might view it differently.
Anyway, now we have 2 separate sub-forums, and at least I'll be too lazy to look in here (CSR/Index), just as with all of the other project forums. And maybe some fans will only look here and not check the Aux Brigades anymore. Just because of a separation we don't need to work efficiently.
Now, if you still want to move active projects out of the Aux Brigades, consider this: one sub-forum for all projects with significant activity in the "current" Aux Brigades (SAO, Index, CSR, maybe Hakomari although it should die down for now since we are finished, so probably not). It would keep the neighborhood-like feeling and helping each other out while getting rid of the "junk-threads" (no offense) and making place for some specialized discussion threads. On top of that it can be used to evaluate the need for a totally dedicated sub-forum, by seeing if one project does make a lot of own active threads once they have the possibility (not counting dead threads vanishing at the bottom of the list).
If you wonder how my idea is different from giving Index and CSR an own forum and adding SAO later: It's the principle behind it. Giving "3 specific projects" and giving "all projects with significant forum activity" one separate (from Aux), shared (with each other) forum are totally different, not only my point of view I hope.
UMMM... Now, this was more that I intended (this is a lie, by the way). Hope my thoughts are clear. If not, tell me, and I will push my ideas some more until you implement them to my full satisfaction
(And I should probably repeat it once more: Although I do give an idea of improvement of the status quo, I actually don't see the need to get any projects out of the Aux brigades in the first place since most of the threads there are dead anyway and bother no one)
