I think the forum should be better organized, it is very difficult to find topics here. There does not seem to be a search engine here. If someone wants to post something it is quite hard to know whether someone else had opened a similar topic earlier.
I think a forum should be a very actual thing. There's too much nonsense on it, to use it as a knowledge-base or something like that.
I understand your problem, but in stead of solving it with a forum search-feature, it might be better to add important imformation to the FAQ, and make the FAQ searchable (when it grows too big).
Besides that, I don't think people here mind answering the same question twice.
I think having more categorries than just the games would be useful. Maybe you could get a volunteer to come up with a dozen or so categories and to say which old topic numbers should go in which category.
We are helping Richard to make the best game site there is (and ever will be!). He cannot do that without user input. Its-a-simple. A feature request isn't a complaint! So stop complaining about compl... hmm.. Never mind :-)
So every post must be categorized under a heading and a sub-heading and a sub-sub heading etc? Who gets to decide what the headings are and how the posts will be categorized? Could you be a little more vague please? :-)
I think the problem lies more with the poster. If they post their question/comment in the wrong forum...well, whatta ya gonna do? We need to pay more attention to where we are, and where we are posting.
One possibility would be to allow people to delete their own postings. I have certainly posted things here which I see no need to preserve for posterity, and would happily delete if I could.
The main problem is what to do if a deleted posting has an undeleted reply.
Another way could be to include the choice of listing all the topics in alphabetical order. With a good "keyword" in the beginning it might be easier to find what one is looking for.