Posting honing questions in the hones forum and vice versa can be annoying. I would also like to say that it can be a common mistake brought on by a member not fully understanding or reading the differences between the two.

I myself posted a thread about king hones recently in the hones forum that turned into a honing thread. It's a very fine line between the two.

Why the two categories aren't merged is beyond me but it is justified, as stated earlier by Glen that those looking for hone information get drowned out by the multitude of honing related topics.

Not being merged and being so similar, only differing by a few letters, we can understand why we see honing posts in the hones forum.

The fact that such an inconsequential thing ruins your day is a bigger issue, and no a mod can't fix that with a pm.