Thank you Sir Newbie for verbalizing the major annoyances of this extremely un-user-friendly forum.

The bad news is that this is unlikely to change. The new forum software isn't much better and wouldn't solve most problems even if it was uber-brilliant and released tomorrow, since this is more about the attitude than software.

There is no good news. We'll just have to suck it up. Well, I guess that's kind of a good news. If you can survive here then the rest of the Internet is a piece of gluten-free cake.