Our default setting were wrong (admins, it was under admin>content types>forum topic, quick search on drupal.org told me all I needed to know). So all the older forum topics are locked. I'll go through and unlock them (ahhhh yeah... repititive and boring. Why I love being a webmaster!) and new topics should allow comments by default. Sorry! This kind of thing is why we haven't really promoted the new site yet.
It is now!
Our default setting were wrong (admins, it was under admin>content types>forum topic, quick search on drupal.org told me all I needed to know). So all the older forum topics are locked. I'll go through and unlock them (ahhhh yeah... repititive and boring. Why I love being a webmaster!) and new topics should allow comments by default. Sorry! This kind of thing is why we haven't really promoted the new site yet.
-Rafael