What communities would you start?

Two more good ones.

<perk> Photography?!

Oh yeah, tons of great interesting animal topics. I imagine it will eventually break down into subsets too (animals being cute, animals being scary etc).

I suspect that this question is not entirely serious, but i will respond to it.

That applies to just about any subject. Somebody who believes in the electric universe or Velikovsky can be answered with references to the actual science. But why would you respond if they hadn't provided a source or a plausible argument? If they had, you could address the source or the argument. That's not really a problem. But you'd still be faced with debunking the source or the argument. After twelve years or more of people peddling "Lincoln started the civil war" or FDR/Pearl Harbor conspiracy claims, i'm just tired of it. The odds are very good that they won't be listening anyway.

No, you won't be finding me sitting up in the middle of the night because "somebody on the internet is wrong."

adding, FBM's astrophotography, that would be good there..

smiles..
for anyone who doesn't know, Ragman is very into photography. Walter Hinterler is too. Together they know zillions more about cameras than I do. And, as noted by himself, so is FBM a photo smart person.

Good on you, but I sincerely hope you opine on the history horses that are not as squishy. There's plenty you know about that hasn't yet been beaten to death by search engines bringing a queue of historical revisionists to.

My suggestion would be a sub-set of Creative Writing called "Communal Writing."

A decade or so ago there was an effort at that.
A player would introduce a character or two and others would advance the story through character or plot development.
Our most successful effort was all about Mona, an aging white (?) woman who worked in a convenience store. A co-worker was Les, a black (?) guy.
It was a nice story and, after a month or so, someone wrote a nice ending to the tale.
The "Gothboy" thread came later, which lasted awhile and then a story about a kid on a bus from NM to some place like MN. There was plenty of room there to add characters.
In the last two stories someone wrote that all of the characters were killed in a horrific explosion.
Those were innocent times, weren't they?

If you start the History Community, you would be the moderator... you could then be the authoritative voice when needed.

Photography and photos (one for the art, the other for just random funny or interesting photos).

Yes, they were innocent times. I wonder if there weren't more failures than successes, though. I tried a thread about a Sam Spade-like detective, but it got no traction. I also tried a bodice-ripping communal story, but it also flopped. Oh well, it would be great if that could be managed.

Agreed. subsets of communities...Photography as Art as well as discussions on the masters (A. Adams, Stieglitz, all the way to the present) and their well-known works.

Then there's also a gadgetry and equipment - incl. antique and film cameras ..a Q/A...and all of those hardware subsets. Then there's the software side...and photo editing (as opposed to graphics editing s/w).

Yes, yes...but where do the men go?

An Art of Management community. I've been in the corporate world or owned my own business for 40 years now. I would like to be able to share some of my experience with others and engage in discussions on how best to solve certain problems. I plan on retiring soon so the personal value of the advice given will be limited, but the discussions could be stimulating. We Robber Barons enjoy discussing our techniques for plundering consumers and exploiting workers.

One of the first topics could be "What's The Best Way to Dump a Pregnant Employee Before She Has to Be Paid Maternity Benefits - Without Attracting the Attention of the State or Fed?" Other topics could be "Creative Discrimination" and "How to Convince Employees to Build 100% of their 401K With Company Stock."

Rules will include immediate banishment for anyone who uses the term "Unfettered Capitalism," claims John Maynard Keynes is anything other than a quack socialist fraud or quotes anything written by those nitwits Robert Reich (Whose short stature matches the size of his intellect) or Enron hack, Paul Krugman.

Depriving liberals of the ability to precisely parrot their economist gods may put them at too unfair an advantage, but there's always John McDonnell, Mariana Mazzucato, and Yanis Varoufakis to fall back on or the wit & wisdom of Thomas Piketty and Jonathan Gruber to guide them.

Likely before my time because I'm certain I would recall it if I had seen it.

Certainly worth a shot. Could be a lot of fun.

It was. But it couldn't been revived even in the old days if I remember correctly.

We've currently got a thread about what we're reading now. What about a community featuring the written word? Classics (poetry and prose), what we're reading now, writing (poetry and prose).

We may never know because it may be difficult, if not impossible, to ensure that they are strictly male and female respectively.

We think we know the gender of the folks here, but there are still mysteries. JTT may never show up again, but he/she was one who steadfastly refused to reveal his/her gender. There may be other such Mystery Men/Women.

And of course what possible safeguard might be employed to ensure fraud is not committed? A sworn oath; a DNA test?

It's not that anyone would have to be concerned with a woman taking offense at masculine grunts and roars in the Male's Den, or for that matter a highly sensitive male feeling outrage over the fact that the female members were objectifying men in the Female's Boudoir as you could unequivocally state at the outset, that no complaints about sexist behavior in either community will be entertained. However, a few imposters of either gender could easily compromise the entire purpose for such communities with their trickery.

How could anyone man write with confidence, "Springheel Jack, you are a perfect example of male chauvinism and everything that is despicable about the male of the species," if we can't be sure Jack isn't really a Jill? What insight might women members be able to gain from a segregation of the sexes if it is uncertain?

Will you be able to resist the pressed attacks of A2K Amazons who insist that a prohibition of their participation in the Male's Den is demeaning to them as women and makes them feel unsafe and diminished?

What about a legitimate complaint that women might feel constricted in their discussions within Sappho's Sanctuary by the fear that a disguised man might take away with him a closely held feminine mystery that generations of women before them have managed to keep a secret from the great coarse brutes that are men?

I just don't think that there is anyway to ensure that only men will frequent the All Male community and only women will join the female counterpart, and therefore as enticing as it may be to gather in a masculine sanctum sanctorum with my A2K brothers and exchange rough humor and manly observations without fear of letting slip the occasional rhetorical equivalent of a fart, I'm afraid that I will have to pass...on the opportunity that is.

And perhaps it won't be possible to sustain in the future days, but it really can't hurt to try.

Oh . . . i get it . . . that was humor . . .