I dunno I think if you post in a dead thread that will usually bump it if a forum is active enough because we can all see which threads have new posts and that usually gets our attention.
I think this forum should have SOME form of genre categorization, if we can find a way to do that while downsizing the number of subforums then I'm fine with that.
Gotta admit I'd like to keep the prog and psychedelic rock subforum because I was one of the people that aggressively campaigned for it, but if we really have to merging it with the classic rock subforum wouldn't be the end of the world I guess.