In the past, when raw, zero-carb was far more popular on this forum and elsewhere, we had several people asking to remove the raw,omnivorous paleolithic diet forum, the wai diet among others. When the raw, omnivorous people started winning out, we had people asking to remove the raw, zero-carb diet forum. And, in past times, some of us long-termers even asked for removal of the primal diet and weston-price diet forums. This is quite wrong, imo. I mean, interests wax and wane. Sometimes, certain forums will have lots of discussion, sometimes virtually none at all, it all depends.
Talking only about rawpaleo matters is quite boring, in the long run, and stifles debate and even can encourage orthorexia if people obsess about diet too much. On the other extreme, if we allow just any old discussion, we may end up violating rawpaleodiet rules. For example, I have no problem with people suggesting that cooked foods may be healthy in some respects, if discussed in the hot topics forum, but it really ruins the forum if people actively promote cooked foods on other forums as well.
The off-topics forum also helps us recognise that while we may have relatively similiar(but still quite different) views on diet, that we all have widely different views on other matters. *Admittedly, I am wholly biased here, as I love posting off-topic forum threads about even vaguely-related raw or palaeolithic matters.*
