The one thing that has always been a constant with this forum is that the discussion has been about arrangers, even when talking about softsynths or amps or midi files or live performance or whatever, it always came back to how these thing related to the core topic. And that's important because arrangers are the one thing that brought everyone here in the first place. This is the only active arranger forum I know of, and I've found that arranger users are different from the other keyboardists out there. There's plenty of other keyboard forums that would either poo-poo arrangers or would just be so flooded with other types of discussions that you'd have to weed through the forest to get to the arranger topics. I wouldn't be here if I didn't own an arranger and was interested in topics specific to how to use it.

I just bought a new keyboard that I'm very excited about to go with Reason v3.0... I'll be talking about it on Harmony Central's keyboard forum or Keyboard Magazine's Expert Forum or on the alt.music.makers.soloact newsgroup, but not here because it's totally off-topic. Is it so wrong to want to keep arrangers in the arranger forum? I would vote in favor of stronger moderation if it meant that arrangers would continue to be the primary focus of this forum.