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One thing's for sure - forums on page 2 of the homepage are going to be overlooked and that will become self-perpetuating.
Not sure that will remain true.
It is possible, and I will enable it, that anyone could create a forum. And then lock those down to whatever permissions they choose.
As such, today there's little reason to explore beyond page 1, but I think exploring beyond page 1 will be something that people do once a great variety of forums exist.
Velocio
I suppose it might do away with 'ftfy' jokes, the last recorded instance of a funny one of those being about three years ago.
I suppose, also, that the quoting half a dozen photos happens mostly in the threads with lots of pictures of bikes?
The 'in reply' thing works for the person replying and being replied to, because they both know what was written. For everyone else it just becomes a little private conversation in the middle of a thread, unless you click to see what the original comment was. That's no less inconvenient, and I would say a lot more of a pain, that quickly scrolling through a quoted post. And people can be nudged away from quoting those long posts in that way if it bothers enough people. I don't look in the bike-pictures threads so I don't know if that has been tried.
One thing's for sure - forums on page 2 of the homepage are going to be overlooked and that will become self-perpetuating.