Wouldn't it be nice if those threads were in their own little forum that non-Karma owners could choose to ignore?

Agreed, and I am warming to the idea of having a separate karma forum that does not show up until you are logged in as somebody suggested.

Again, the Karma discussions will be in the Karma General forum, or the Karma Technical forum. empeg discussions will be in the empeg General forum or the empeg Technical forum.

That is the optimistic viewpoint that assumes the majority of Karma owners will be intelligent enough to figure out where to post. Plus you still have the issue of a lot of extra posts to the shared forums which would likely drive down the signal to noise ratio there.

-Mike