I don't understand why some threads on GAF are "community" threads and others aren't. It seems completely arbitrary.
Evillore essentially killed the poli-gaf thread by moving it to the community thread. The decision makes no sense and the thread has taken a nose dive in terms of posts. Each US politics thread would typically get dozens of pages over the coarse of a few weeks, especially now that primary season is upon us; currently the community thread is stuck at a small number of pages, and many of the thread's long standing posters are absent.
To make matters worse, the OT is now muddied with a variety of stupid threads (usually revolving around "Republican says something stupid" terms) that would have gone into one thread before.
I really hope the hip hop thread doesn't get the same treatment. It's my favorite community/thread on GAF and we've done a great job nurturing it. The forum's most popular non-gaming threads should be in the OT, end of story.