About different forums: there have been never any complains that SEIV
ata/Sound/Graphic and SEIV:AIRaces/ShipSets forums are located in different section. With upload feature working now, you have to check 2 forums, if you're really interested in se4 subjects of course.
About OTs: some of them funny or interesting, some of them not (most of them for me). They make this forum more humanistic and live, but I won't miss them (usually I have enough OT debates with my friends, but no se4 related discussions in RL, that's the reason).
PS: you can try to workaround this policy rule by making tread "PBW Galactic Elections 2404: King Bush vs Cancellor Kerry" and appeal to the fact that subjuct is directly related to SE4
