Let me clarify...
It's a simple setting...but it could put some hurt on the server software...I have no objection to doing a 10 topics + 250 character RSS feed on all of the forums...there's no real impact to the nature of the site with RSS "amped up" a bit.

We won't know till we try. The server is bored, but it is a shared instance and it's whether or not the whole platform is 'bored' is another thing.

Let's turn it on, and I'll keep a general eye on it.

Turned them on, between 25-50 replies will be in each forum feed, plus there's a main feed w/ several forums. 150-200 characters from each post will be included in the feed. These typically refresh every 5-10 minutes.

Thus far, it hasn't impacted the server one bit.

This forum isn't active compared to some so it shouldn't hurt. I've been on forums where if I don't check twice a day I can't loose track but here I can go a couple days and catch up.