No one can take opinions away from people, I do get that, but the point about the Cafe section is that it hasn't moved but a hundred billion other sections have sprung up in front of it where once there were half a dozen or so, and judging by the frequentedness of the Cafe that is arse-about-face. Example -- you go on CC any time of day or night, like yesterday 3am (yes I do test these things), there's almost always a "1 minute ago" for the most recent Cafe post. No other section is so well-attended.
I still don't buy the logic of "General and road cycling". Either road cycling is an ilk of its own, qua Hybrids or MTBing, or it isn't.
Not that I don't massively appreciate the work Shaun does and has done but I don't know what the Mods contribute and further, the concept of "if you don't like it you know where to go" is not one I'm supportive of. I'm reminded of the quotation on the Thai restaurant menu I'm going to tonight...
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so” . (Ghandi)