I agree with you! My thoughts are that many people just seem to post wherever without looking for the appropriate section Admin has created for various discussions. They took a great amount of time to create the many areas that would be of interest for all people. Many new members post in Main when we have the Intro section for them. Not everyone seems to take the time to familarize themselves with all the specific areas of this board. It would make it so much easier if people did post in the appropriate section so those of us that do look in the various sections would find the topics that belonged in that area. I have even seen postings in the classified section that really belonged in Main or GCC.
That said Admin and the moderators do a fabulous job in trying to keep things on topic but it would be a mammoth job for them to continually move them to the appropriate section with the thousands of comments made daily by members. I feel it is the members responsiblity to familarize themselves with the categories provided for specific topics and post in the appropriate area as to not crowd out questions and helps in the Main area for quilting only topics. Especially since there are so many postings in a given day and topics get moved further and further down on the list. Not everyone has the time to go to the 4th or 5th page to see if they they could help someone out or express their opinions when asked. One day I tried to look at as many pages I could and was astonished to find postings that were not answered or only had an answer or two that did belong in that section but were moved further and further down because of exactly what you are talking about.
The only solution I know is that members were more conscientious about creating a topic in the appropriate area. That said, none of us is perfect....least of all me.