Sometimes you want to ask EVERYONE a big ol' question or two before you get going on a fan-fiction about RAF, and you don't want ten pages of irrelevant discussion, you JUST want your answers, simple yes, no, here-and-not-there, and a few things that won't work in polls (which not everybody answers, anyway).
Sometimes you want to tell EVERYONE something that is relevant to RAF, and you want to be sure that they'll see it.
Sometimes you want a place to post important things that don't really fit anywhere else, and you know that the topic would be flooded with discussion in any general board, which would defeat the purpose.
Do you suppose we could have an Announcements sub-board, just a place to post announcements-to-all-RAFians and questions-for-all-active-RAFians?
*shrug*
I know it'd be useful to me, certainly, and I imagine the administration could put it to good use. It'd leave suggestions/feedback/issues unclogged by this type of thing.