How to kickstart this area

There doesn't seem to be any standard time for a thread to stay in the Recent Discourse part of the forum.
I posted a thread in which I asked for advice and it was gone after 2 days when a large number of new threads were published by the moderators. Mine was pushed out to it's home forum where I got a trickle of replies.
On the other hand, some threads will sit for days with no activity.

Hmm I may be wrong with my previous guestimate. To my surprise my previous post made it to the forum in a little under 7 hours it seems. The time of this post is 4:39pm EST on 3-29-2013. I'll see how long this one takes to post if at all and then I'll stop.

Regarding kick starting the forum again.. How about a discussion about some audio manufacturers who are moving manufacturing from China? I can't find the article but I heard from another audio gear maker that for Sony's higher end home audio products they are moving manufacturing out of China. I can't find the article to substantiate that but maybe others here will know.

Also too you can pretty much forget about reviving threads. Rather than keep starting new threads I'll often look in the archives about the topic or gear if I'm researching. When I finally see my post on the revived thread it is in the bowels of the recent forum updates and getting no views. It is as if the moderators want you to keep posting new threads. It makes no sense to me. Then some of the posts that make it through are people inquiring about how much a piece of equipment is worse. Sometimes I think the moderators are trying to make such a bad user experience out of the forum in order for people to migrate to the Audiogon Hub. If that is the case it might backfire on them.

Back to the time thing. I posted a reply to my previous thread at around 4:40pm EST on 3-29-2013. It is now approx 12:40am EST on 3-30-2013 and my post still isn't there. I bet this post will not make it to the forum at all. If it does I say it gets posted Saturday 3-30-2013 at 2pm EST.

Maybe the moderators are NCAA fans and they are partaking in the games rather than moderating here.