A few forums for other games I play have a board specifically for guides. Think it would be nice if CS had one, too, since we have so many guides. Would also de-clutter the CS Discussion board so that people can find actual discussion topics more easily
Not a big priority since we do have the Guide Index but it would be nice
Edit:
Another benefit is that it would be easier to see if someone has already made a certain guide; right now we have to hope that the owner of the Guide Index finds the guide and/or someone posts the guide there, because there's no easy way to search for guides
(the closest right now is searching the topic titles in Chicken Smoothie Discussion for "guide" + topic keywords, which also picks up the question threads and the duplicate would-have-been-guides and dead/outdated/previous version guides; also, since topic titles are brief, it's probably not going to include a lot of keywords, whereas the body of the guide might include those keywords, but here's what happens when you search the first posts of topics in CS Discussion for "guide"--yeah, with the amount of links going to other guides, it's going to be hard to usefully narrow down that search lol)
Edit2:
A counter to this suggestion is that it might encourage users to make unnecessary guides or frivolous guides or something.
I don't really have a counter to that.
I just really think informational guides can go into a dedicated Guides board, especially with how many we have (a LOT), instead of staying in "CS Discussion"
Edit3:
At some point in February 2019, 23 out of the 94 most recent (at the time) non-sticky CS Discussion threads were guides that had or could have had a CS Wiki version (in other words, guides that everyone will agree are guides--so NOT counting the projects or the more contentious guides). That's very close to 1/4 of the first 4 pages of CS Discussion at the time. I haven't been keeping track since then, but really, we have a lot of guides. Most of them aren't continual places of discussion in the same way that other CS Discussion threads are, but these guides continue to see activity, understandably so--there are thread updates, users coming in with questions, etc.
TL;DR of reasons for and against
For:
- Makes more sense conceptually: guides are not continual places of discussion in the same way that literally all other non-sticky CS Discussion threads are
- De-clutters CS Discussion--more room for the actual discussion threads (as much as 25% of the first 4 pages of CS Discussion can be guides)
- Allows easier finding of guides if they're in their own board
Against:
- Could encourage frivolous guide-making
- Unnecessary due to Guide Index
- Line between guide and non-guide is blurry
- Counter: The guides that are already on or will eventually have a CS Wiki version... those alone are very numerous, so we could just use "is this/could this be on the CS wiki" as a measure
It's been over 10 years since 
