[ononimo]

i agree that "noise" is largely in the eye of the beholder and that there are likely many strategy-related threads that more experienced players might deem to have low content.

however, it would be impossible to split the forum based on the quality of content of a strategy post whereas it would be very easy to seperate strategy vs. sweat/official/etc threads. doing so wouldn't magically solve the "noise" issue but it's hard to argue that it wouldn't significantly reduce it without negative side-effects (everyone would know where to go for sweat/official threads). and if the choice is between reducing noise and doing nothing ... i vote for reductng noise.

EDIT: the sweat/official/etc threads seem to be most populous in the evenings/late night (Eastern) hours which is when i typically post so maybe i'm more sensitive to the issue than others.