I hope nobody takes offense to this post, i consider it constructive criticism and only post it in an attempt to improve the asp.net message boards.

Is it me or would the forum section of this website be MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more valuable if posts didn't have to be approved by a moderator before being posted?  I interact on a lot of different boards and this is the only one i interact on where a post must first be approved.  It isn't uncommon on these other boards to create a post and have a conversation of 20+ posts within 30 minutes.  However that would take about 24 hours+ on these forums due to posts taking an hour+ in being approved.  On other boards resolutions and information is traveling in real time at a faster rate making the forum more valuable in my opinion.

This isn't to say that doing away with moderation is the way to go, but maybe allowing posts to be posted immediately where moderators can then moderate them after being posted.  I realize that by doing this the posts on these forums would increase considerably and moderation may become an impossible task for the few dedicated people who currently moderate.  So maybe making the forum so that everyone can take part in moderation and help maintain this site.  If joe blow sees a post that is nothing but an advertisement he can flag the post for moderation by the admins of the site.   By doing that the moderators do not have to look through all the posts, just the posts that the other members have flagged for them as being questionable.

Just suggestions, again i hope nobody is offended, just ideas to get the information moving quicker.