Would it be possible to have someone/s moderating the forums? I only frequent the recommendations forum, so I can't speak of the state of the other sections, but the recommendations could do with some moderating. There are often threads that go off topic, and it would look cleaner and be easier to find story recs if someone deleted the off topic comments, and maybe deal out some bans after repeated infractions. To give you an example, what made me think of this was when I was reading the High Fantasy thread, and saw that user richardshagrin had pasted a Wikipedia article. Out of curiosity, I went through every thread on the first page of the recs section, and counted the same users posts. Out of their 14 contributions to the first page of the RECOMMENDATIONS section, only 2 posts were actual recommendations. The other twelve was weird comments (that almost everyone seem to just ignore anyway), or a reply to someone else going off topic. While this user isn't the only one making it more difficult to find actual recommendations (if you want an other example, just check the top post "Rags to riches" and you'll see the first response being someone telling the original poster to just search for the tag instead of responding with a recommendation. I'm sure the OP knew how to find stories with the tag, he was asking for recommendations from people who have read some within the theme and found them good enough to recommend, not for any random story that happens to be "rags to riches"), it would help the people making the threads looking for stuff to read if there was a moderator who could remove off topics and move discussions etc to the right subsections.