Click on general interest to post or search for an article in general interest, or 'chat'. This will work exactly as the news forum, except you will be in the 'chat' forum. Works with all the other forums as well. Thanks
From a user perspective, It really isn't very clear for old and new people alike (how to post to the different the forums), and it took me a while to figure out how to not post "non-news" items in the "news" section.
I think a lot of folks,like me, link to the news page itself and rarely visit the homepage if ever. Perhaps when you hit the "Post Article" link, you can first supply an option for which "forum" it needs to be placed in (with short description).
Just a thought. I think it might save those 'evil' moderators some time and energy if a mechanism like that was in place. ;>