I kind of agree about the clique thing - I've certainly been on the receiving end of it myself. There are certain support threads that I've posted in and just been completely ignored in favour of the people who regularly post in said threads. It's my belief that those threads should be for everybody, but the unfortunate fact is that the people who post in such threads often tend to know eachother better, and so they are more inclined to help eachother.
I also agree about threads being repeated etc. Like makedamnsure, I just seemed to be typing the same thing in the reply to posts in the First Aid and SI Discussion and Support forums so often that I've just given up reading them now.
Maybe one way to improve the above, and regain that 'sense of community' is to cut down the number of subforums there are? Recommendations can be merged with General for example (as recommendations often appear in General anyway)
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