Because, once upon a time, everyone here would read every single message thread.

In order to do that now, I'd have to quit my job... I still try to get all of the messages in Programming, Technical, Bug Reports, Wish List, etc. but I simply can't keep up with General anymore. Off Topic is a nice break from the hardcore Empeg forums. Especially when jimhogan is involved.

I find myself posting less, too, for the same reasons. Descriptive subjects would be nice, as would a wwwthreads feature to show all of the new posts in a forum in one nice long page, regardless of the thread they're in. Kinda like an email digest. Maybe I'll get bored and write a Perl script one of these days...