Do you miss something on BrainKing.com and would you like to see it here? Post your request into this board! If there is a more specific board for the request, (i.e. game rule changes etc) then it should be posted and discussed on that specific board.
I personally do not like how the discussion boards are set up because it is hard to know what messages someone is repling to (Except if they are good about doing something like: Reply to Fencer: ...).
But I would rather see Fencer's time developing new games like Battleboats (which hopefully will come soon) then to see his time improving the discussion board. (Maybe something to look at once he runs out of other things to do...)
I guess its each to their own in this case BBW! I'm used to this type of board now, I guess you're more used to threads.
I just hope Fencer is never so short of things to do he has to change these boards! LOL! :o)
As for how the Discussion board is setup on IYT, I also do not like that much.
If I was to set up a discussion board, the only example on a game site that I can think of is LittleGolem.net - that is you see just see all the subjects - and how many replies are in the subject. Once you click on the message thread that you want to read - ALL messages in the thread are displayed. That way if you want to read about a certain topic, you can - and if you want to not read about a topic, you don't have to!
But again, I would rather see new games fixed then have the time spent on the discusion board.... this is a game site, not a chat site anyway... :-)
The message boards at DSG (www.pente.org) are like this also (the way they are on little golem.net as described by Big Bad Wolf). It works fairly well.