I know most of the people actively working on bitcoin (and active on this list) ignore the forums, for good reason. But there's a lot of people (everyone new?) that think the most active members of the forum have a major influence on the project's direction. Which is making us as developers look really bad. As if we're some political faction that wants to bring down world governments and unleash a global anarchistic doomsday scenario.

It really needs to be more down-to-earth. Ideally, the forum would simply be a way to communicate with the *actual* users. For example, I use it for soliciting user feedback on UI features.

JS