I know! I've lost count of all of the topics about the forums being in the linear mode.

YES

Especially the Proto and Forum View topics.

I've read all the pinned topics so many times I've practically memorized them.

Just don't test me on it.

But you can't blame the complete newbs, it must be pretty hard to find everything

if you join a real forum for the first time. Altough that is an exception.

Well, if you're a newcomer, you likely won't know what proto or 'PE' is, so you'd naturally post a new topic. Just an example.

Then there's no point to the pinned topics, like I said.