I think I saw this already suggested earlier in this thread, but it is so annoying to me that I will 'bump' it to bring it up again.
I really would like to be able to sort the list of posts in a forum by the date the threads were started. This way I could look at the top of the Deal Requests or Amazon Deals or other forums, and look at only newly discovered deals. Instead, I am forced to reread the same deals over and over due to new comments being posted on existing or even old deals.
Both sort orders have their purposes and merits. I just want to (sometimes) be able to choose 'the other one' to save time.
In fact the Thread Started date/time is not even listed on the forum topic list.