Hi Ed
Thanks for your response. The tip of your tongue thing is important, but can also usually be solved in time in other ways, but often things come to mind from years past and need answers, as an example I knew the opening lines from TV infomercial from when I was a child and for nearly 30 years I could find no one of my generation who knew it or had heard of it. It was a major irritation to me like those tunes that just go around in your head for no real reason. On the same day I found Answerbank I posted the question, and had an answer within minutes (literally) from someone who sent to me the complete wording of the poem. Answerbank answered in 5 mins what 30 years of asking people had not.
I also hear a tune on an answer phone recorded message which I loved, but could only remember the vague theme of the song, not even any of the words or artist. Within minutes of posting a query on Answerbank I not only had the song identified, but had downloaded the music from another site.
What I would like to see improve is the attitude of a few contributors who seem to take more delight in 'knocking' a posting, or being unnecessarily sarcastic when questions open up the possibility for good discussion, but I do not know how you could control this. If these contributors could exercise more self control there is a much greater range of benefits that could be obtained from this site.
As for changing the categories, I only mention it because I have had difficulty finding questions that I know I have previously seen flash up in the Latest Postings box and recently had some difficulty myself trying to work out which would be the best section in which to post a specific question. I would be interested to know how many contributors actively search through questions as I sometimes do, or do most people simply browse or look at only the latest postings?
All in all, even if you didn't change the site at all,