Ways to index 'classic' or 'most helpful' posts...

Interesting.

I'm up for debate on the 'sticky' suggestion. Ron, what do you think? A way to denote 'classic' threads using the current board functionality could have merit.

As to voting for and bookmarking threads, that gets into customizing the forum which is one of the few parts of BT that's pretty much 'off the shelf'(except for the race reports forum which is obviously tri sprecific and a hugely valuable resource for everyone).

We try to stay away from customization of the forums for a few reasons: 1- it increases complexity and costs whenever there's an upgrade to the forum software. 2- it takes away from the development of new one-of-a-kind features and enhancements to the existing ones.  We have to make decisions as to what's more important, like bookmarking threads vs.  updating the Race Reports to include race goals or getting started on adding route functionality. It comes down to priorities and resources available. Maybe this is something to look into as the priorities for 2007 get set.  

Should an upgrade to the forum software become available with these features, we'd jump at it of course.  

I kind of like the idea of nominating a mod for particular forums, a person that can of course create and update sticky posts to 'helpful' articles and posts that can get buried quickly...that seems easiest.

Maybe even having that person keeping eye on particular forums to help us out.

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OK...that'll work...ball's in your court for next steps.  Let me know what I can do to help.