I like the atmosphere here as well. I believe the dog run was for off topic stuff and it's good to have that on a site. It would be cool to see more women folk on the forum, to ever have that on a knife, gun, or hunting forum they need more to talk about than knives.
I visit a Duck hunting forum that is very moderated. At least down to PG. I believe the PG rating is one of the things that has made that site grown to receive the #1 rated of the 100 top waterfowl sites. Along with that everyone talks about everything pretty much from favorite shotgun, politics, where should we go on our second honeymoon, to replacing carpet in the house. It's no telling what will be on the main board over there and everyone gets along. This site reminds me of what that site was when it first started. I believe knife dogs forum will go far.