I'm confuesed here, all this is doing is making it harder for the people who love this place to use it. There is a reason there is 76,000 posts in the general chat, it's not because it was the forum at the top of the page either! It's because this is...wait for it...a community.

You cannot change the order of the forum and expect people to suddenly start posting threads on informative and serious subjects, if they didn't bother to before, they're not going to now.

New members who visit this forum, the first thing they see is a marketplace, the initial impression isn't a community that is friendly and welcoming (like that can be seen in the members introduction/general chat) but the first impression is just a glorified spam hole.