Simon: my concern is that if everyone who didn't get an answer in 2 hours did that, the "new posts" list (found by clicking "More" on the homepage and the best way to use the forums, IMHO) would become useless.

If someone's got an answer to give, generally they'll give it - bumping stuff is just annoying: forums aren't real-time media so expecting a real-time answer is just doomed to failure.

Swapping the relative sizes of the news stories, and moving your user's "New posts since last visit" to the homepage would be quite handy; at least as an option for logged in users.

Cheers,

Andrew