# Forums names and subjects

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Maybe this? From ‘21

> [@What will be the fate of the Quarantine Zone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-fate-of-the-quarantine-zone/943781/2):
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> One option would be to tag them all as COVID-19 and move them to IMHO or MPSIMS and delete the forum. There are currently 1304 threads, so hopefully there would be a way to script the tagging and then the move. Another option would be to demote QZ to a subforum under IMHO or MPSIMS. Or we could just leave it.

But no such consensus.

No objection to having it around but as a general principle? Some general principle of when a topical forum gets retired should be conceived.

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