It might be a good idea to make the following notification “sticky” for a week or whatever a reasonable amount of time is, so it doesn’t drop off of the main page before people notice it:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/new-topics-added
that is a good suggestion, another idea is to appoint someone who will post a new thread in the “Around The House” category to keep the awareness factor strong. Now we don’t need someone who is going to say don’t count on me, we do need someone who is going to say I Can Only Try