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I also wonder how many sites actually get those pages indexed very highly unless they form part of a home page portal with some added content. They are both just lists of links.

As a forum your threads stand the best chance of being the pages that get indexed for specific searched keywords that somehow end up shining like beacons through a mass of useless user generated banter and jibes.

Change your thread titles to something relevant, and ideally edit the first post to make it more readable (but your users may hate you for that)

Exactly.