I found the name to be more humorous than anything else. Although, reading some of the responses, I can understand why there would be issues with the name, because most people around here don't seem to appreciate humor much. For me, I guess this brings up the question of whether theymos made this a "fun" name because he is mocking or does not agree with the perception of where the "state of the forum" is at, if he just made it fun... for fun?, or merely created the subforum to respond/acknowledge requests by other members and made the name humorous because he doesn't really take it all that seriously?  I may be overanalyzing, although I'm leaning towards the fact that theymos created this in a serious manner, with a bit of humor, to address or at least acknowledge that the forum is not in a great state with content and spam-like behaviors. Maybe I am being too gullible. 

I'd agree the placement of the subforum may not be well placed, assuming it is intended to be a serious subforum, it does make it less serious under "Other". While it would gain more attention and possibly more posts higher up... the issue with putting it under "Bitcoin Discussion" is that having "Serious Discussion" underneath of "Bitcoin Dicsussion" seems to imply Bitcoin, or "Bitcoin Discussion", is not serious... and in that case, why not just jump to changing "Bitcoin Discussion" to similar limitations that exist with Serious Discussion/Ivory Tower, and try to make Bitcoin Discussion "serious". Or eliminate "Serious Discussion" and create a child board for the "IvoryDistinguished Tower" under Bitcoin Discussion?