1) It would be nice to have a way, when viewing a particular forum, to directly search just that forum from the main forum listing... or am I missing it?

2) It seems like activity points (not ratings) are incremented by 1 for just some actions-- mainly forum posts? Perhaps points could be enhanced by giving bonuses for things, such as responding to an unanswered post, points for creating topics that are "Tracked" by other users, etc.

3) Related to #2, it would be cool to have some way to star or favorite or +1 great posts, a kind of reputation system for the discussions... kind of like medals, but simpler :)

1) no preference

2) Great idea - love to see it implemented

3) Great idea - thumbs up/down on the thread as a whole?

1) no preference

2) Excellent Idea - hope it's implemented

3) great idea - thumbs up/down on the threads as a whole?

all in all, excellent suggestion

sorry for posting it twice