The mods will not have legitimized anything.  We've already legitimized the manu's by starting dozens of threads about BFL, another dozen about BitSynCom, KNC, etc.  We started those threads because we lent support at some point to those manufacturers and we all want to talk about it.  This is where the legitimacy was created.

All I'm suggesting is we group the existing threads into more manageable sub-forums for better visibility.  If we all collectively stop discussing BFL/Avalon/Bitfury for bad or good their respective sub-forum can be dropped/merged into the main forum. 

Nobody is going to be tricked into buying a Monarch because there happens to be a sub-forum about BFL on bitcointalk.org.