In my mind there
is actually a distinction between the lenient lower carb carby diet and the strict low carb high(er) fat ketogenic diet - similar to the distinction between vegan and vegetarian.
As I see it including some high carbohydrate food in a (so called) low carb diet is encouraging people in that way of eating when the whole idea of a low carb diet for diabetics, as far as I'm aware, is to educate us to avoid the foods that are aggravating our condition. I can't see the logic in continuing to eat the foods that our bodies can't handle well. There seem to be a lot of people here now who don't wish to stick to a strict LCHF diet and I think this is actually quite confusing to new members, as we're getting regular questions about whether you can eat bread, cereals, etc on this diet. And it may be even more confusing when they may get conflicting advice regarding "acceptable" foods - we're sending out mixed messages. I'd like to see some way of easily clarifying things, but I don't necessarily think separate sub forums would be the way to go.
Quite honestly I don't think I would have got the information that helped me two years ago if I was joining the forum now.
Robbity