I think you have a good idea; it's fairly similar to an idea that I had to consolidate and simplify a section of the website/forums only for people to describe in depth their computer usage and specifically #!.
The general theme I suppose, between us, is that as the number of users grow, finding specific accounts of using the distribution with specific hardware in specific applications, (as a guideline for whether or not you should try the distribution and if so, how and with what hardware,) or quickly finding specific fixes or hacks, e.g. scripts, will become very difficult to do on the forums as they are now.
I have taken into consideration the usage of a search feature currently available to forum members, which I expect to start performing inadequately within as small a time frame as three to four years from now as a result of the vast amount of variation in the ways people describe things coupled with the increase in users; and so for example you may, one day, search for "ATI Radeon," and want other users' accounts of a problem and associated solution with a broken driver, getting instead five or six or more pages of every post containing that search phrase.
-You could specify, "ATI Radeon fix," and get five or six pages of solutions to a variety of problems with those GPU's in relation to #!, but never find a single problem/solution pertaining to your circumstances.
I think a better organization would not necessarily entail your plan, however. I think it would be better to simply reorganize the forums into more specific sub-forums for the time being. For instance, the help and support forum could theoretically be broken into several different sub-forums, each of which is dedicated to solving a small set of problems within a certain class of issues, using hyper-links and some creative forum moderation to clearly and thoroughly connect the aforementioned sub-forums as needed to provide an exact and concise means of quickly searching for what you want without using the actual "search engine," as it is now.
The moderators could eventually just create single posts themselves, perhaps including technical input from a handful of contributor-users attributed appropriately throughout the thread as a form of peer-review, that, in the case of the help and support sub-forum (and sub-sub-forums,) deal with help and support topics which have been beaten to death in fifty different threads.
Furthermore, it may become feasible to provide compressed/archived text files someplace that can be downloaded by users who don't fully understand a topic or haven't been able to get adequate help otherwise showing the threads, posts and replies from years, possibly even months, past that address a specific issue once said issue has been entirely exhausted with the most likely, (I would prefer "all,") associated ins and outs of the issue also addressed via the hyper-linking of sub forum threads, (such as a fix that inadvertently creates another problem,) in the aforementioned moderator-created ueber-threads.
