Very true, but the conclusion I came to from seeing this is that the community that has grown around Bitcoin is a testament to the fact that Bitcoin really isn't something that will be adopted by the masses. It's not that the Bitcoin community looks like a bunch of kooks, its that most of them are.
I don't think the kooks are a majority, they're just very vocal. The trolls are as big of a problem as the kooks are. Normal people are definitely interested in Bitcoin, we just have to shut the kooks and trolls up so that the normal folks will tend to stick around.
Once Sirius stops dragging his feet, this forum is supposed to be removed from the bitcoin.org domain, moved it to bitcointalk.org, and the "forum" link will presumably be removed. He has the new domain now, he just hasn't actually done the move yet.
There's also an effort to get a
Bitcoin Q&A site on Stack Exchange. This will help a lot, as we'll finally have a user support site with decent moderation. You guys should join and help get it off the ground.