Additional reaction:

• The biggest problem is that a lot of functions aren't started on the other
  forums.
  So a discussion mostly starts on this forum, which is indeed an unwanted si-
  tuation.
  - There should be a way of moving interesting discussion parts to
  another forum with only a link to it.
  Some other sites copy such information in a new created topic with a remark
  of the creators. For an example see the http://www.kixscripts.com forum.
  - Another suggestion is to remove only the unrelevant information of topic-reactions.
  Sometimes users want to share some relevant information about the UDF with us.
  
• We agree with Les that the moderator could of course, make a request of the
  author to do so as not all participants are fully aware of the forum etiquette.
  After a period everybody can see what kind of contents a topic should contain.
  
• "how new members approach the board" is indeed a threat. They will not read
  all pages. A lot of usefull information and UDFs will be bypass by them. Even
  with "Show All" this will not be gone.
  For this reason Shawn we has create a little procedure which can combine
  all entry information of this forum on one HTML page and which reformat the UDF
  page of "www.scriptlogic.com" to another HTML page. The most interesting part is,
  that it has direct links to related forum issue.
  You can see both pages also as a mirror page. So the UDF information is always
  in some way available.