It's the same question I asked about the "Surface Phone"
Why is there a subsection on this forum for the "Surface Phone"? And why is there a subsection for the "Nokia Lumia 1820"? Neither of these devices even remotely exist. We have absolutely no reason to believe that they will exist. WPC gives credibility and plausibility to these bull**** rumors by making subsections and posting silly discussions about them. What a joke.
Well, in general I agree. Not sure why the 1820 has a sub-forum and I'll remedy that. Surface phone is (or was) easier because there was an internal project at MS on that, but it has since been canned with the acquisition of Nokia. So there were real reports about that project beyond just rumors.
Having said that, forums are very different from the front page, which is our "record" for the site. It's like Star Wars, there's cannon and then there's Lucas signed off stuff and then there's the rest. Forums are meant to discuss everything, with less regulation and moderation (so long as you play nice, I personally don't care what you talk about). So it's not so much as giving it legitimacy, but allowing people to discuss everything--no matter how stupid--in a nice forum area.
Still, I think the 1820 stuff is stupid, so will have that re-worked as I agree, the threshold for sub-forums should be higher, even in the bat**** crazy 'rumors' section