It seems to me that most people don't bother putting things on the Open Thread if it's more than five days old,
Once the Open Thread is more than a few days old, locating where it is can take more work.
The value of posting something to the Open Thread also decays rapidly away from the first and fifteenth of the month.
Seems like we should have Open Threads more often.
No, just a link to it on the welcome page, along with some other important pages... Like the various repositories, and Public Annoucnements.
A fun comic about seashells and Bayes' Theorem. http://xkcd.com/1236/