I'm not sure what happened but I was just going to respond to a post that is no longer here.
#The mod I was referring to is one of Lynne's so you know it is awesome right off
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=254333
In reply to some of what you mentioned: I have been doing this for a long time and these questions regarding the cms are really nothing new for me. I just have really never been able to discover the best path to take. I recently started pondering this again because we have been expanding a section in our site called "Pro List" and I wanted to figure out the best way to get this content indexed.
Right now I am just posting most of these Pro List articles directly into the forum and skipping the cms all together. I am using the cms more for bigger articles and announcements that I want displayed onto the main page.
I would really like to use the cms more for these articles but the fact is they are easily accessible and viewable when listed as sub forums and I have come to the conclusion that having these articles in both places is a little to cumbersome for the most part.
I have also not seen any evidence that promoting threads to articles causes any kind of an impact on seo but then again this is something very hard to know because an impact would happen slowly and not at once.
Thanks for the replies!