"At any rate, that's irrelevant to this discussion, as the homepage displays all forums. No matter what forum is chosen for a particular topic, it will display on the homepage."

Maybe technique threads should be in a section that doesn't.

There'd probably still be the problem of reclassifying them as such, but that may be better than burying them - I've always felt like the problem with that is that it removes the history of what's already been covered.

(Simple answer: any thread with more than x posts won't show on front page, or maybe x posts per y posters, or x posts of y size per z users - ie, the dead horse coefficient)

Paul. I share Serendipidy's sentiments. I think you recently posted some very important questions.

"Paul. I share Serendipidy's sentiments. I think you recently posted some very important questions."

Absolutely, but the problem is that interesting questions lead not only to interesting and useful answers, but that they come mixed in with some habitually mistaken answers that turn up here time and time again. To make sense of it, you'd have to have the time to carefully read through and notice the subtle errors of reasoning - things like habitually changing words in quotes or source references and thus concluding that they mean the opposite of what they do.