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/ck/ and /fit/ always struck me as a fairly narrow topics and I don't think any discussion of general fitness and wellbeing is complete without discussing diet. Exercise and diet are both parts of fitness, you can't do one and not the other.

The alternate I was thinking of is a board called /sig/, which would contain anything related to improving one's "fitness," broadly defined to include any and all improvement of mind and particularly the body.

I think this more accurately strikes at the root interest. Men in /our/ cultural sphere are generally interested in all avenues of self-improvement, while fitness/strength training and cooking/nutrition are just areas of improvement within self-improvement. They would play well together, and board topics being broad generally drives more activity. Activity that includes cross-pollination between areas which creates more interesting thought. Boards that are too specific tend to die out.
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>>2508 (OP) 
I say no, for very practical reasons rather than any argument against the spirit of your post. As we saw with FC going down, the entire /sig/ and /z/ [archive] boards went down. We lost those.

If it's in /pol/, the likelihood of it being lost is dramatically lower given how often anons will save archives or back-ups of that board. I know too many pinned threads are frustrating, but perhaps it can be anchored at the very least in /pol/ or /fit/.
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>>2519
As an addendum to my argument, let's look at endchan: they've had massive internal and external attacks. Their /sig/ threads within /pol/ are still up and running, with somewhat recent back-ups still existing. I think it's a good model.
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>>2508 (OP) 
I'm up for a merge. But we need better backup options. How's ourchive.net coming along?
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>>2520
Wouldn't that argument apply to any board that isn't /pol/ though, if we assume that only the most popular board will be retained?
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>>2524
I would have the entire chan archived frequently, if it were me, but this is costly and time-consuming. I don't disagree with you, in spirit.

I'm approaching this from a security analysis point-of-view. Economics in time and resources, with the assumption we will go under eventually or unexpectedly is my lens. This should not be interpreted as a threat or dooming, but simply that it follows from every historical node that is available (FC, our own anti-spam tech which took down threads, inevitable future software vulnerabilities, possible unforeseen accidents (legitimate life events) or attacks against staff, 4niggers' takedown itself, endchan's rogue mod who infected all the boards, and so on).

/pol/ is the most popular, that goes without saying. It follows, to me, that it will be the one that is most often archived by other anons who are not the owner. If /sig/ is an archive of our best material, it's a corollary that it should be prioritized as a space which is preserved at all costs. That is the crux of my arguments (and counter-arguments). I'm not saying I'm correct here, just that it seems to me to be best on these bases alone.
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