I see you've been asleep for a few weeks. People don't like that threads are split at all.
To answer your question, most people (but not all) tend to watch a bit from various corpos and indies. When threads are split, it's harder to keep track of smaller indies or corpos that aren't as popular. Split threads could work great for specific events. Might even work for liveposting, but it's useless for general discussion.