Always struck me as a message board like this is a good place for an irregular post to kick off discussion or for a comment short of a post. Maybe you can suggest to him to post here on occasion?
I have tried to get him to come check this place out, but he says message boards just aren't for him. He loves things that give him a quick shot of the news and being as busy as he is, he doesn't have the time to devote to an online message board persona.