>>145 (OP)
Lurker here.
I agree that history and religion should be separate boards. While history and religions are deeply intertwined, religious topics actually have more in common with /x/ and /pol/. Regardless, because of the complexity of issues, /rel/ needs to be its own board. The threads would obviously contain a lot of crossover content. Who knows. It could be a smashing success, if properly moderated.
However, if you really want a successful history board, you need to allow for topics that make the common /his/fags and glowniggers start pissing themselves. Yes, I'm talking about stolen history topics. At this point there is just way too much evidence that human history has been heavily manipulated and that we've been lied to (especially in western nations) about absolutely everything.
You're going to have to allow for topics that have been wrongly pushed into 4/x/ like megalithic structure construction, giants, Tartaria and mudflood stuff -- all of which have nothing to do with the paranormal. The mainstream history nerds and the alt-history schizos need to come together and figure this shit out without resorting to endless name-calling. 4glow has been absolutely successful as a divide-and-conquer mechanism where world and human history is concerned. I mean, fuck's sake man, you can get better information from yootoob comment sections.
Also, consider this:
1] The alt-history crowd on 4glow doesn't spam threads about this stuff. They just react to bait that, to me, looks manufactured on a constant schedule. They notice things that deserve noticing and always end up in time-wasting banter with wannabe glowfags at Eglin or Ramstein. This begs the question: Why would the USAF pull their dumbest E-2 airmen from their regular time on reddit every 7-10 days just to pop into alt-history threads and call anons schizos and tell them to take their meds? After watching this happen over and over for years it's obvious that there's an agenda and the US gov has an active campaign to suppress anything outside the mainstream when it comes to history.
2] Look at how many boards 4glow has and how many threads are constantly in the catalogs. There's NO FUCKING WAY that more than 10% percent of the threads are organic. The entire site's content is mostly posted by an AI bot and shills using the language gleaned from /pol/. I went through the entire catalog on /his/ just now and it's clear that it's suffering from the same affliction as every other board. DARPA AI.
So, in conclusion, what I'm saying is that we have the potential to push the reset button here and hopefully kick the glowniggers out of the equation.