Another thing that happens is – too many OT threads take over the Active Forum Topics. There are only 20 spots.
If 20 people post great real-estate threads, then 10 people post stupid political threads, 10 of those great real-estate threads get bumped off the Active Forum topics list.
The fact that people respond to the political threads doesn’t, in fact, mean that they are interested in those political topics more than the 10 real-estate topics that were bumped off the screen. It just means that those 10 real estate topics were bumped off the screen by crap topics and are no longer readily available.