Just playing devil's advocate here.... I shy away from the specific forums because they're often like a ghost town and nobody ever answers the questions. There's more than 10X the activity in the 'General' forum as most of the others you list. I've never understood everyone's annoynace with out of place topics.... I just skip to the next line if the title doesn't look interesting.
Something related that might help some people... does everyone know how to change your preferences so you get more posts on each page? I can't remember what the default is on this forum but a lot have a really low amount which can make it difficult to scan through the posts. Once I changed mine and can see 50 at a time no individual post really bothers me.
