Being perfectly serious now, the board is fine, the reason people might find it boring is because they've probably been a member here too long and/or perhaps they frequent here too often and they've seen the same questions asked a half a dozen times over... this in turn causes irritability and restlessness among some members, there's not much you can do for them.
Really, if you were to poll the newer members (or members who don't post on a frequent basis) of this forum about the quality of the forum in general, I'm sure you'll get an impressively high number of ":thumbsup:" votes. - just sayin
On another note, I think that political issues should not be entertained in the talk section... why? IMO, They're too polarizing and they seem to drag down the entire TALK area of the forum. On most days, political issues are the last thing I want to have to wade through when looking through the talk section and I'm sure the feeling is mutual among other forum members.
:2 cents: