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I was wondering as I went to the News and Rumors Threads on the forum if it makes sense to separate all these crowd sourced project from the rest of the actual News and Rumors? I like to come to this site to look at this section, and to be honest, it's becoming congested with all of these Kickstarter threads appearing. I understand the interest in them, but I wonder if it would be easier for those looking for projects to support to also find what they are looking for in a dedicated area? I apologize if this has already been suggested before, but finding it by searching for kickstarter, well yields a lot of threads on the actual crowd sourced projects themselves.

This has been suggested before, and it has been stated that Kickstarter and Indiegogo and other crowdfunding announcements are as much news about this hobby as anything else in the 'News and Rumors' forum.

And more often than not, they are usually more pertinent that 50% of the stuff that is in that section!

So, they're here to stay!

Here's a thread with yakface's take on it: linky