Yes there is a tendancy for the popular things to stick around and the classic little gems get lost in the mists of time. This is just something is going to happen unless people make a bit more effort to keep a decent thread going, and I don't just mean jumping into the dying embers of a thread to post a "*bump* or other meaningless twaddle. Or you know when you read a good opening post, then half a dozen good replies then the rest of the page is just random bollocks and you see the thread goes on three pages but you know in your heart it's going to be filled with terrible rantings and at least a dozen posts by people saying "YEAH!" or "Thats great" and other collected statements which don't really say anything apart from showing the posters need to post.
I think it's just one of these things that you have to learn to live with, I mean these are the Blackout Audio forums, it draws people who are into Blackout Audio style music so of course these people are going to be mostly focussed on certain conversational music threads. I post over at No-Future where stuff like schranz is glossed over in favour of all things Mosquitoy. These are specific markets pulling specific people. I mean me and Benoit have been on the same mailing list for five years or so now and in some ways the content of that pisses me off as it's more based around techno producers in America and I've tried several times to punt really good stuff from Scotland at them and have received barely no feed back from them.
To some degree the diversity of threads could be a little higher if people would stop using ****ing god awful thread titles. I swear everytime I see titled "So I..." or "Is this good?" or any other generic "this is a generic statement which doesn't say a single thing about whats in this thread, so my well thought out and argument provoking words will be glossed over by the majority of people", I just want to break out the lambasting scorpions, I practicaly always ignore these threads these days because if someone can't even be bothered to take the ****ing time to come up with a decent title for the thread which draws people in then their post is probably not be worth reading.