Quote - As for other Forums here, to be honest the use of them is sporadic at best.  This Forum is, by popular usage a Poser Technical Forum, so what is the Poser Technical Forum for?  I've been around alot of the forums here and they are either empty or very sporadically posted to.

But then all sorts of questions are asked here, what is this figure? where can I get that hair? what character is this? here is my next thingy bob or whatever. 

If I had one last question to ask it would be, what would  you like to see in this forum that would keep you interested, coming back and participating on a more regular basis?

Dead forums tend to stay dead. People don't post to dead or dying forums because people don't reply to threads because they aren't reading the forum because the forum is dead.

I like forums that have lots of new threads and a good chance of a reply to things I post.
There is no reason to separate a forum by topic until the thread creation rate causes new threads to drop off of the top couple of pages. The point at which you have to click to page 3 to find a thread you created within the last 24 hours is probably a bit past the point at which a forum needs to be split.

This one is nowhere near that. So while there exists a split into a general poser forum and a technical one, I expect that the other one isn't used because it was split before the forum reached that critical rate of new thread creation.

If anything this forum is still a bit too slow.

So I say, don't worry about creating new threads. Ask questions. But don't apologize ahead of time in your thread title, either. Just title the thread appropriately and let the discussion take its course. It's all good.