You really should look over our CI&A section, it's already designed incredibly well and what flaws there are are constantly being worked on. zanz is very very picky already about what ideas her lets into the game. As for unread topics? i've yet to see a real quality card be ignored, and every card can make its way into the polls (which show images of the cards nice and handy) even if they receive few or no comments.
In game forum link is already a heavily requested feature/