The main reason people post in the general forum, is people believe that, nobody goes into the forum.
I have an idea how about the top two threads (most recent) from the software forum have their topics placed in a box above the general postings box?
I have created a quick
mockup to show the basic idea.
This would give software forum more exposure and would make the software posts in this forum go down while helping to create a more active software forum.
Thought I would see what you guys think.
-Edwin