Numbers before I posted this post:
(25 topics per page in this board, I only actively counted suggestion threads after page 1 but I made sure that the threads that aren't help/problem threads aren't in those counts)
Suggestions:
page 1 - 9 topics, including 4 stickies
page 2 - 9 topics
page 3 - 4 topics
page 4 - 6 topics
page 5 - 1 topic
page 6 - 4 topics
page 7 - 6 topics
page 8 - 9 topics
page 9 - 8 topics
page 10 - 6 topics
Help/Problems:
page 1 - 16 topics, including 4 stickies
page 2 - 16 topics
page 3 - 21 topics
page 4 - 19 topics
page 5 - 23 topics, mostly December 18/December 19 (item pound) threads
page 6 - 21 topics
page 7 - 19 topics
page 8 - 16 topics
page 9 - 17 topics
page 10 - 19 topics
(page 5 also has a guide; if I had to categorize it then I guess it'd go under Help/Problems)
Maybe I should have done this during a month like... idk, May, when there's no event going on lol a lot of the help threads in the first 6 pages have to do with December 18
I didn't keep count, but many suggestion threads were duplicates of existing suggestion threads. I think having separating Help/Problems from Suggestions would make it easier for people to find if their idea was previously suggested.
52 out of the 250 threads (first ten pages) of this board are suggestion threads. That proportion probably goes up when there's no event because then there will be fewer straggler-did-not-find-event-board question threads, but it probably still wouldn't be that big of a percentage.
The longer we go without a board split, the worse this problem gets. Assuming that the new board is for Suggestions and that questions stay in this board since it's less work to move suggestions over: I'm sure we have many users on CS who would be more than happy to make a list of links to suggestions if the mods don't have time to find them all themselves, although...
you should still be able to snag the vast majority of suggestion threads by going into the Advanced Search and searching "suggestion" in this board with the option "First post of topics only" checked (and then displaying the results as Topics to save time), like what I did to get
these search results(fun fact: 64 out of the 75 last active topics [last post in the last 90 days] in those results were originally posted in 2016, 2017, or 2018 of course; think that goes to show just how many suggestions threads are being made, so.......... the longer it takes to get a new board made............... the worse this board gets crowded.................................)
PLEASE make a new board! The current 20-80 split is probably closer to 30-70 when there are no events, and with the number of threads that are made in the current combined board, both questions and suggestions get drowned out by each other (questions drown out the suggestions, which then are bumped back up, which then drown out unanswered questions, which then are bumped back up while new questions are posted...)