I mean to say it's a weird flex to announce your intention to quit a free discussion forum because you may not get your way.
It's effective if the admin is trying to run a blind democracy. If you're the one providing much of the content and are an influencer of sorts, and I tell you that I'm just here for whatever the crowd wants, you have an outsized voice over everyone else even though you're one person. This was a type of mistake we've been making for many years early on.
It leaves a majority of the posters that might not be as active without their voices being heard. And 90% of the users are lurkers, 10% are posters and only about 1% are new thread makers.
So polling a blind democracy by voice results in tyranny of the minority against the silent majority.
As an admin this is very difficult because it feels good when you have users ask for something and you give it to them and then they're happy. That's a good feedback loop for person. You feel accomplished like a good admin. But like this example it can misconstrue what a majority of the users actually want.
And in many cases users don't care that much and what they really hate is change. So if you're split 50/50 you don't change.
I personally love the idea of a news and politics subforum... The form equivalent of a 24-hour news channel that you're not really supposed to watch all the time but you flip to when you need to get it and get away from it when you need your sanity.
The tags could be specific so it would be easier to find election news or whatever.