I agree with this change, and I'd also agree with keeping the betting forum posts off the front page. Granted, many are betting forum, and it is the offseason, but right now I don't see a single thread about ISU athletics on the main forum page - which the vast majority of people are going to use - or on New Posts.
Before I didn't really care. I know people can skip over them yadda yadda yadda. But if you thought of it like a newspaper, that is prime real estate, at the top of the Forum page, or on the Forum page at all.
Not everyone visits ths site a lot. Perfectly good threads get pushed off on to the sub forums that people might be interested in but never see because they don't go visit each forum.
Anyway, that is my opinion.