sye, it's been my experience that there is enough room on the Internet for people to go off and form as many splinter groups as they like. Witness how kuro5hin and advogato have been sort of "splits" off of slashdot. So if you're unhappy with something, nobody's preventing you from starting your own version of it. However, as I have found over the years, unless there's a need for something, your new endeavor won't attract much attention.

This is the problem I keep having; with the exception of a successful IRC channel that I joint-formed with two or three other people, my luck with forming splinter groups has been abysmal. Unless you're just dripping with charisma, you're better off waiting until there's a sense of need among a community. And it doesn't look like skolos really has much going on with it, so I'm afraid your options are to play by their rules or just give up.

Giving up isn't so bad. Socratic dialog is getting far less play these days than it deserves. And there is a lot of neat stuff to do in the world, especially now that days are getting longer up here in the northern hemisphere.