You may recall I made those and others when the Transition Committee first opened discussions on the direction RAFO should take. EXCLUSIVE fans of other authors aren't likely to come here rather than to their own niche sites--but they weren't likely to come to a WoT site either. It was a judgment call, the age old dilemma of specialization (and thus reduced demand) vs. generalization (and thus competing supply. ) Added to that were sustainability issues since we all thought at the time there was but a single WoT book remaining.

The decision, as I understand it from the outside, was that with the inherent risks in running a WoT site beyond the end of WoT, and the knowledge most WoT fans have at least some interest in other Fantasy but many Fantasy fans have no interest or even distaste for WoT, a broader Fantasy/SF focus served us better. The point has also been well made that the best way to stimulate interest in our WoTMB as well as the site, the best way to retain the majority who said in the Quick Poll that the WoTMB would be their primary one, is for each of us to contribute quality threads and discussion to the WoTMB BEFORE rather than AFTER TGS is released. Clearly if few or none of our regulars are seriously discussing WoT much we can't expect a bunch of newbs to seek us out and do it for us; they'll go where they can join those discussions rather than being forced to begin them. So ultimately how big WoTs role is here really depends on the members more than the Admins, who chose a broader focus in part because the wotmania OFMB was so much more active at the time than the WoTMB. I can't give you a date for the same reasons I won't be able to document it much with canon (i.e. time constraints) but in the next week or two I'll try to post my own long convoluted theory on how the many divisions among groups of channellers will be resolved in coming books, and I think there will be plenty of meat on that bone to gnaw.