Originally Posted by Goethe

Lots of forums have zones for fucking around or whatever, which is fine and an essential part of an online community imo. However, when that's the predominant search, it'll ultimately fuck up SEO. If that forum were closed to search engines and filtered out of search results, seo would probably improve. Added to which, the posts that actually deal with program discussion would be much more easy to find.

De-indexing and maybe making the fucking around a "members only" section would cut out a lot of the shit that gets posted pretty quickly too.