I'm new, but don't forums inherently "vote" organically. The mods can certainly do what they want. I think wisdom would be to shuffle people politely to certain forums that were more or less positive. I probably won't vote. I came over because I like VMP still and want to discuss it. I won't vote, because that seems nonsensical to me. I will "vote" by deciding whether I want to participate in the new direction. The thing is that would happen no matter what. You build it. You moderate it. You lead it somewhere. People decide via participation. It seems that the more places you have (within reason) to catch the different type of people on the front end the better. If a segment dies off, then there is your answer. The other attitude of strictly cutting out one segment or the other just seems bitter, and in an ironic way similar to what you are mad at VMP for doing.... picking a new target and alienating you in the process. Just my 2 cents as a sort of new observer.
Not picking on the quoted commenter either, just used the quote to move the discussion forward.
I'll add that coming even to the old forum it was a little frustrating as a newcomer to click a thread title and have half the discussion off topic. If you want to pick up new traffic politely keeping things on topic is a no brainer in forum moderation to me. Most of the ones I've participated in will let discussion go off topic, but create a landing spot(even if temporary) for it and redirect if it gets too much. Just for the sake of sorting through things.
Again it seems to me if the creators want to take the forum a different direction people will vote anyway. But it would be easier to make all current parties welcome and gently direct traffic to those places, until you see who the bulk of your audience is.
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