Utility of Popular Discussion

[Claudio_González1]

This was the list of Popular Discussions on the right sidebar of the main page on this forum some minutes ago:

Shouldn't such lists be restricted to discussions appearing in the specific forum one is visiting? I do not have and I do not use Flash, so the first item is completely wasted on me. And it doesn't amuse me to follow a link such as the last one and find that it is a four post thread in a forum I never visit...

Also, I think it cannot be all that difficult to prevent the listing of closed/archived threads. It's not fun to follow -for example- the link to the Spam report thread [6] only to find that it has been closed for months.

[Claudio_González1]

Four months later and the situation has worsened. Of the five items in the list, only the first is useful (all the rest are closed or archived; and I very much doubt that there is anyone interested in looking at spam reports of three years ago):

[Phillip_M_Jones]

I use SeaMonkey and e-mail notifications and just read and post to items I get notified of, so I don't have to put all the foolishness of the Jive system.

If I had to use just a web browser and dig through each and every forum I read and the have to scroll through the list of thousands of post to read the ones I follow. I never would. It should be a way to Mark all topics Read then show only those not read that day.