It seems that the format of listing newest threads at the top make people gravitate towards current or active threads. An ideal format, imho, is one where we have to SME's gravitating to the forum where they have the most domain knowledge. Pick a SME that you know of, you will probably see a random posts across forum domains that he/she is not truly involved in. There should be a away to separate the chit-chat (BMT has that chatboard for the trully chatty) and promote more focused discussion within the forum domain. Keep up the great work Baron. Thanks.
Thanks for the feedback. I am working on several different ways of addressing the issues you brought up.