Yep! that sounds a good idea. I'm glad there are others thinking along the same lines an me.

It's handy having a Chit-Chat section but perhaps it needs to somehow purge messages after a couple of days or so because I don't forsee it becoming a useful archive which users will want to search like "VB General" is.

Perhaps you could assign semi administator rights to a handfull of the more senoir/serious users to keep the forums tidy and delete/move spurious postings.

I don't think a fully moderated system where each post is vetted before allowing to to be submitted is the answer though either.